"The nurse says it was half-past eleven."
The man shrugged his shoulders. "It may have been. I did not observe the time."
"What were you doing?"
"I was asleep."
Mr. Stapleton started. "Asleep?" he demanded, angrily.
The man nodded. "The day was warm. I had nothing to do. For a time I read the paper. I must have dozed in my seat; for, the next thing I knew, the nurse was calling to me, and the boy was gone."
Duvall frowned. "Then you could not say whether anyone else was near the nurse and the boy, at the time he was kidnapped?"
"No, monsieur. I could not."
"That will do." The detective turned to Mr. Stapleton. "Have your man drive us to the place where all this occurred."
The banker gave the man the order, and he left the room. Then Duvall turned again to Mary Lanahan.