human
This is a pretty state of things, Frau Bauer. You have made more trouble than you know!
gpt
I don't understand, she faltered.
human
I did nothing. What do you mean?
gpt
I mean that you have brought us all within sight of the gallows. Yourself quite as much as your friends.
human
The gallows? exclaimed old Anna, in an agitated whisper.
gpt
Explain yourself, Mr. Head---- She was trembling now.
human
What is it you mean?
gpt
I do not know what it is you have told, he spoke in a less savage tone.
human
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 out, then I, too, will say what _I_ know. If I do that, instead of being deported--that is, instead of being sent comfortably back to Berlin, to your niece and her husband, who surely will look after you and make your old age comfortable--then I swear to you before God _that you will hang_!
gpt
Hang? But I have done nothing!
human
You are in no real danger at all if you will only do exactly what I tell you,
gpt
Yes, she faltered.
human
Yes, Herr Hegner, indeed I will obey you.
gpt
Never, never call me that! he exclaimed.
human
And now listen quite quietly to what I have to say. Remember you are in no danger--no danger at all--if you follow my orders.
gpt
You are to say that the parcels came to you from your nephew in Germany. It will do him no harm. The English police cannot reach him.
human
But I've already said, she confessed, distractedly,
gpt
It is a pity you said that, but it does not much matter. The one thing you must conceal at all hazards is that you received any money from me. Do you understand that, Frau Bauer? Have you said anything of that?
human
No, she said slowly.
gpt
No, I have said nothing of that.