course. \"It is true that that is my wife's gun,\" he said without hesitation, \"and that I threw it down the well. But I swear as God is in His Heaven that I did not shoot her. The reason I acted as I did was to prevent a scandal. I immediately suspected that she had been murdered. Well, a dirty scandal would not have given her back to me; it would only have besmirched her reputation still further.\"
\"I know all about the 'other man,
course. \"It is true that that is my wife's gun,\" he said without hesitation, \"and that I threw it down the well. But I swear as God is in His Heaven that I did not shoot her. The reason I acted as I did was to prevent a scandal. I immediately suspected that she had been murdered. Well, a dirty scandal would not have given her back to me; it would only have besmirched her reputation still further.\"
\"I know all about the 'other man,
