“None at all.”
“Was he in the master’s class?”
“No, he never exchanged a word with him, so far as I know.”
“That is certainly very singular. Had the boy a bicycle?”
“No.”
“Was any other bicycle missing?”
“No.”
“Is that certain?”
“Quite.”
“Well, now, you do not mean to seriously suggest that this German rode off upon a bicycle in the dead of the night, bearing the boy in his arms?”
“Certainly not.”
“Then what is the theory in your mind?”
“The bicycle may have been a blind. It may have been hidden somewhere, and the pair gone off on foot.”
“Quite so, but it seems rather an absurd blind, does it not? Were there other bicycles in this shed?”
“Several.”
“Would he not have hidden a couple , had he desired to give the idea that they had gone off upon them?”
“I suppose he would.”