Chapter 34

"There was no one who saw us start," went on the German excitedly. "At least no one who saw me start. You they saw--but me, I was smuggled into the aeroplane. Everything is accounted for by that devil. It is impossible for me to prove an alibi. For four days I have concealed myself; our friends all think, as you told them, that I have gone to England. They think you follow, and they will see us return. Would anyone believe us if now we said it was all a lie? They would say--why did you remain hidden? What …