He always wondered it was not done oftener, under similar circumstances." "But has his bicycle gone ?" "Lina looked.

It has not.

I should have expected as much.

I told her to note that point very unobtrusively, so as to avoid giving the police the clue.

She saw the machine in the outer hall as usual." "He is too good a criminal lawyer to have dreamt of taking his own," Mrs.Mallet interposed, with another effort.
"But where could he have hired or bought one at that time of night ?" I exclaimed.
"Nowhere--without exciting the gravest suspicion.