"Afterwards you helped to transfer the body from the ambulance to the hangar, where it lay till the evening?"
"Yes," the ground engineer admitted.
"Did you drive the van back after putting Furnace on it?"
He nodded.
"Did you watch beside the body at all?"
"No. Miss Sackbut did that. I went back to stand by the wreckage."
"Did you go into the hangar again that evening?"
"No," he said positively. "I was busy going over the bits with Mr. Sandwich and the insurance man."
The Inspector closed his notebook regretfully and left. As he closed the door, Mr. Ness again burst into mournful melody.
"I reckon he knows less about it than I do," thought the Inspector, "if that is possible."
For ten minutes the Inspector sat bolt upright in a chair outside the club-house, waiting for Tommy Vane
