“Isn’t that enough? But say, Sid, are you sure you weren’t out?”
“Of course I am. Ask Phil and Frank. They woke me up in bed.”
“That’s right!” chorused the two.
“I heard a noise,” explained Phil, “and woke up. I was just in time to see you going out of the room, Tom, and——”
“That was when I was after Sid,” Tom explained.
“You mean you thought it was me,” put in Sid.
“Well, have it that way if you like. But if it wasn’t you I chased, who was it?” demanded Tom, after the manner of one propounding a difficult riddle.
“That’s up to you to find out,” spoke the Big Californian. “Are you sure you did see and follow someone, Tom?”
“Of course I am. Do you think I’m crazy?”
“I don’t know,” was Frank’s simple remark.