"Because it's a nasty story.  I got Just enough to be sure before my informant sobered up and clammed up.  Dr. Ward Smith delivered his wife of child by Caesarian section - and she died on the table.  He seems to have worn his horns complacently until then.  But what he did next shows that he knew the score; with the same scalpel he cut Captain Brant's throat - then cut his own.  Sorry, hon."