PART 201

In less than a minute the Benz pulled out of the kerb and equally sped off. Zain promptly reached for the phone to call the police to report the shooting; it is not every day that one gets such incidence in one's neighbourhood.

PART 200

Zain instinctively ducked behind the wall in fear. There was a skid and a screech. The red truck sped off in the opposite direction. The truck passed the house just in time for Zain to look at it's driver but she could not make out the face of or even the skin complexion of the driver.

PART 199

From her vantage point she could see that there was a young man behind the steering wheel of the Benz car but the top of the car was not down; it was still drizzling slightly.

The streets were quiet and calm, but this was until another car drove by the Benz. This car was an old truck painted red. The driver of the car held out a gun; a revolver and shot in the air delibrately missing the young man in the Benz convertible.

PART 198

I suppose it was these thoughts and fears that caused her to look out of her living room windows, half expecting to see a Benz Convertible parked outside. And lo and behold there it was; the parked Benz car.

She went upstairs to her bedroom and returned with a pair of binoculars with which she surveyed the streets.

PART 197

She recalls a certain party she had, where she had certain undesirable elements in attendance. Of-course the usual affluent persons amongst her circle of friends were there. The party had almost gotten out of hand that she had had to call in the police to remove the undesirable elements whom had taken it upon themselves to be out-right asses in the party.

Her fears could be that one of those elements could be stalking her, for what reasons she knows nothing of. One always have such kinds of characters in one's profession. I suppose one could label it occupational hazard.

PART 196

For a while now; for some days running into some weeks she had noticed a dark blue Benz Convertible car trailing the side kerbs of her streets bringing her to suspicion of certain elements amongst her acquaintances and persons she may know.

PART 195

The Weekend showers had subsided and Zain Goodfallen was all alone lounging within the confines of her living room. She was contemplating going out for a spell but decided against it.

PART 194

''So what do we do my friend - talk to Fred Mark ?''

''No - we search for an home made lab.''

''We call in Percy,''Wesley added.

''That disgruntled college student passing for a paparazzi ?''

''I hear he is trailing Zain Goodfallen...so we could kill two chickens with a blow...one would die from the blow, the other the fright of the blow.''

PART 193

''There! My friend - that bullet was soaked in molten sulphur before applying it to it's gun - a revolver no doubt.''

''And what's more that revolver is a pre- 70's revolver.''

''How do you know that ?'', Uli asked.

''I know that because their bullets are not much use, they fragment poorly, and easily too.''

PART 192

But going by what he had already suspected; given the possibilities of what may be feasible in a simple lab as in an home made one; going by what may be easy to achieve in one, he decided to test for sulphurated acids first.

He brought out a tincture of the ''testing'' liquid and put in 3 drops in a test tube of the boiled mixture.

The mixture gave a clear red hue which indicated an acid of the H2SO4 genre.

PART 191

When he had achieved this he brought to an aggressive boil, what was left of the the first test tube and then with a tong, he gingerly poured little bits of what was left of the boil mixture into 5 other test tubes.

His intention was to test for acidity or basicity of whatever the boil may be.

PART 190

He took a rack of test tubes.

''From it's indication it seems the fragment has a thin film of some thing slightly oily on it.''

He applied pure water to two of the test tubes and with a pair of twizzers dropped the fragment into the first test tube and brought the mixture to a full boil for about eight minutes.

Then with the twizzers removed the fragment and dropped it in the second test tube to cool off.

PART 189

M.G. Wesley and Uli Yang did not at first attempt, discover any slugs.

But Dr Uli Yang later discovered a small particle; part of a fragmented bullet that had hit the side panels of the bus.

He had hid it with the initial intent to surprise Wesley the next day.....perhaps.

As he said, ''You are not the only one with eyes like that of a falcon.''

M.G. replied pleasantly and then immediately set to work.

PART 188

The search for the laboratory (which is easier than the search for the gun) begins.

PART 187

Theory Of Ballistics


Bullet from shot gun was soaked in ''molten sulphur''.

Implication:the wounds Drago Vittelli sustained from the gun shot would be lacerated within 48 hours.

Tests on such lacerated wounds would or could be misleading as to the type of bullet used and perhaps the type of gun used.


But an enquiring mind could deduce that a bullet soaked in ''molten'' sulphur could only mean that the gun used was a revolver in which a bullet of such kind could be easily be applied.

This leads to further enquiry that there was a laboratory or at least a make shift one to produce such a calibre.

PART 186

The papers he wrote on his tests and discoveries he titled it the Theory of Ballistics.