Elementary, Snidely

“N-o-o. Wait, yes. The smaller ones appear only as toe prints and they are at the same level and inside the larger ones. And the heels of the bigger one appear to be dug in. Don’t know what you’d make of that, though.”

“Well, what do you make of these?” Klein asked, as he stuck his walking stick into the line of sea oats nearby and came up with two garments? Let’s see, blue medium-sized Speedo and orange large-sized boxer trunks.

“That certainly does look suspicious, I must say, but hardly conclusive. There’s nothing to tie these footprints and the bathing trunks to anyone or to each other.”

“Fair enough. Look at the steps leading away from here, Snidely. What do you see?”

“Both sets are shallower than before and the strides are farther apart.”

“So, that would mean . . .?”

Snidely cogitated on that for a while and then a light went on over his head. “They were running from this point. They both were running.”