more freely to some one of their own sort than to an
employer, however kind. In fact, it often happens
that after having remained quite silent and refused
to say anything to, say, a solicitor, such a person
will come out with the whole truth to an old friend,
or to a relation. We will hope that this will be the
case this time. And now I don't think that we need
detain you and Major Guthrie any longer. Of course
you shall be kept fully informed of any developments."

"If there is any question, as I suppose there will
be, of Anna Bauer being sent for trial," said Major
Guthrie, "then I should wish, Mr. Reynolds, that my
own solicitor undertakes her defence. My wife feels
that she is under a great debt of gratitude to this
German woman. Anna has not only been her servant
for over eighteen years, but she was nurse to Mrs.
Guthrie's only child. We neither of us feel in the least
inclined to abandon Anna Bauer because of what has
happened. I also wish to associate myself very
strongly with what Mrs. Guthrie said just now. I
believe the woman to be substantially innocent, and I
think she has almost certainly told my wife the truth,
as far as she knows it."

He held out his hand, and the other man grasped
it warmly. Then Mr. Reynolds shook hands with Mrs.
Guthrie. She looked happy now -- happy if a little
tearful. "I hope," he said eagerly, "that you will
make use of my car to take you home."

Somehow he felt interested in, and drawn to, this
middle-aged couple. He was quite sorry to know
that, after today, he would probably never see them
again. The type of man who is engaged in the sort

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