"Yes."
"I mean, since we took him away last night?"
"Yes."
"Did he come back here?"
"That's right."
"What time?"
Ted hesitated. He'd had his eyes fixed on the clock, but seconds and split seconds counted, too.
"I don't know the exact time."
"Better tell the truth," Corporal Hausler warned bluntly. "It can go hard with you if you don't. Where's your father now?"
"I don't know."