"This is really terrible!" "Could she carry those things--all of them--on her bicycle--by which I hear she left ?" asked Mr.Lindsey.
"Easily, sir," replied Hollins.

"She had a small luggage-carrier on her bicycle--it would hold all those things.

They were not bulky, of course." "You've no idea where she went on that bicycle ?" inquired Mr.Lindsey.
Hollins smiled cunningly, and drew his chair a little nearer to us.
"I hadn't--when I went to Mr.Murray, at the police-station, this morning," he answered.

"But--I've an idea, now.

That's precisely why I came in to see you, Mr.Lindsey." He put his hand inside his overcoat and produced a pocket-book, from which he presently drew out a scrap of paper.
"After I'd seen Mr.Murray this morning," he continued, "I went back to Hathercleugh, and took it upon myself to have a look round.