To that he answered sharp:
"I did not—but I saw no reason to give my movements in detail, as they were of no importance."
"Why did you go there?"
"I was angry and excited and it was a place where I could be quiet."
Asked how long he had been in the bungalow he said he wasn't sure—it might have been an hour or two. He had lit the fire and sat in front of it thinking and smoking cigarettes.
"Didn't you hunt in the desk for something?"
He answered with a sort of shrug as if he'd forgotten.
"Oh, yes—I was hunting for a bill I thought I left there."
To the questions about Sylvia—whether she had been there with him—he answered almost violently that she had not, that he had not seen her there or anywhere else that night.
"Did you notice any footprints in the mud when you came?"