"Oh!" exclaimed Sandy with a grin.
"Back there by the door," Will went on, "the man leaned against the wall for some purpose. Of course, I don't know why, but I suspect that he leaned there for a moment to get the boy well balanced in his arms before stepping outside. At any rate, he stood there for an instant with a broad back braced against the dusty logs. You can see where the top of his head came, without getting up."
"That's reasonable!" replied Sandy. "Now tell us how you know he has black hair and eyes."
"He left half a dozen hairs on the pillow at Bert's bunk," replied Will. "Also he left coarser black hairs which evidently came from his face. They lie there on the table."
The boys examined the hairs curiously, and then Will asked:
"What do you think of it?"
"I think," replied Sandy, "that Bert regained consciousness while he was being lifted from the bunk and got in a couple of digs at the fellow's hair and whiskers."
"The motion which removed the hair and whiskers," suggested George, "might have been entirely involuntary."
"That's very true!" answered Will. "It doesn't seem to me that the boy regained consciousness. If he had, he would have made such objections to being taken away that George would have been awakened. At any rate the hairs are here, and that is sufficient!"
"Now tell us how you know about the bulk of the fellow."