roughly on the shoulder. "Look up, Frau Bauer!
Look up, and tell me that you understand! It is important!"

She looked up, and even he was shocked, taken
aback, by the strange look on her face. It was a look
of dreadful understanding, of fear, and of pain. "I
do understand," she said in a low voice.

"If you do what I tell you, nothing will happen to
you," he exclaimed impatiently, but more kindly than
he had yet spoken. "You will only be sent home, deported,
as they call it. If you are thinking of your
money in the Savings Bank, that they will not allow
you to take. But without doubt your ladies will take
care of it for you till this cursed war is over. So you
see you have nothing to fear if you do what I tell you.
So now good-bye, Frau Bauer. I'll go and tell them
that you know nothing, that I have been not able to
get anything out of you. Is that so?"

"Yes," she answered apathetically.

Giving one more quick look at her bowed head, he
went across and knocked loudly at the cell door.

There was a little pause, and then the door opened.
It opened just wide enough to let him out.

And then, just for a moment, Alfred Head felt a
slight tremor of discomfort, for the end of the passage,
that is, farther down, some way past Anna's cell, now
seemed full of men. There stood the chief local police
inspector and three or four policemen, as well as the
gentleman from London.

It was the latter who first spoke. He came forward,
towards Alfred Head. "Well," he said rather sternly,
"I presume that you've been able to get nothing from
the old woman?"

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