told all she knew. There was great comfort in that
thought.

Her face cleared, became quite cheerful and smiling,
when she saw Alfred Head. He, too, was a kind
friend; he, too, would help her as much as he could --
if indeed any more help were needed. But the Dean
and her own lady would certainly be far more powerful
than Alfred Head.

Poor Old Anna was not in a condition to be very
observant. She did not see that there was anything
but a cordial expression on her friend's face, and that
he looked indeed very stern and disagreeable.

The door was soon shut behind him, and instead of
advancing with hand outstretched, he crossed his arms
and looked down at her, silently, for a few moments.

At last, speaking between his teeth, and in German,
he exclaimed, "This is a pretty state of things, Frau
Bauer. You have made more trouble than you know!"

She stared up at him, uncomprehendingly. "I don't
understand," she faltered. "I did nothing. What do
you mean?"

"I mean that you have brought us all within sight
of the gallows. Yourself quite as much as your
friends."

"The gallows?" exclaimed old Anna, in an agitated
whisper. "Explain yourself, Mr. Head----" She was
trembling now. "What is it you mean?"

"I do not know what it is you have told," he spoke
in a less savage tone. "And I know as a matter of
fact that there is very little you _could_ say, for you
have been kept in the dark. But one thing I may tell
you. If you say one word, Frau Bauer, of where you
received your blood money just after the War broke

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