For half an hour, Rousselot walked around in the vicinity, wondering if the woman who lived with Morini had sent him on a wildgoosechase, until eventually he began to feel tired and headed for the port.
Prosecutors scoffed at such a possibility, noting that Mans had already faked his own kidnapping, offered a bribe for his release, and sent police on a wild goose-chase pertaining to the diamonds.
Richter's diary recounts how Elgar told him that there was no thematic link to the variations, but that since they were finished on April 1st, Elgar had resolved to start a wildgoosechase by pretending that there was.