human
Please try and remember, he said sternly,
gpt
I swear I did not!
human
Did you say that you had received money?
gpt
Yes, Herr Head; I did say that.
human
Fool! Fool indeed--when it would have been so easy for you to pretend you had done it to please your nephew!
gpt
But Mrs. Otway, she has forgiven me. My gracious lady does not think I did anything so very wrong,
human
Mrs. Otway? What does she matter! They will do all they can to get out of you how you received this money. You must say---- Are you attending, Frau Bauer?
gpt
Yes, she muttered.
human
Yes, I am attending----
gpt
You must say, he commanded,
human
Yes, she murmured--
gpt
If you do not say that, if you bring me into this dirty business, then I, too, will say what _I_ know about _you_.
human
Ah, you do not know perhaps what I can tell about you!
gpt
I can tell how it was through you that a certain factory in Flanders was shelled, and eighty Englishmen were killed. And if I tell that, they will hang you!
human
But that is not true, said Anna stoutly.
gpt
So you could not say that!
human
It _is_ true. He spoke with a kind of ferocious energy that carried conviction, even to her.
gpt
It is absolutely true, and easily proved. You showed a letter--a letter from Mr. Jervis Blake. In that letter was information which led directly to the killing of those eighty English soldiers, and to the injury to Mr. Jervis Blake which lost him his foot.
human
What is that you say? Anna's voice rose to a scream of horror--of incredulous, protesting horror.
gpt
Unsay, do unsay what you have just said, kind Mr. Head!
human
How can I unsay what is the fact? he answered savagely.
gpt
Do not be a stupid fool! You ought to be glad you performed such a deed for the Fatherland.
human
Not Mr. Jervis Blake, she wailed out.
gpt
Not the bridegroom of my child!
human
The bridegroom of your child was engaged in killing good Germans; and now he will never kill any Germans any more. And it is _you_, Frau Bauer, who shot off his foot. If you betray me, all that will be known, and they will not deport you, they will hang you!
gpt
Look up, Frau Bauer! Look up, and tell me that you understand! It is important!
human
I do understand,
gpt
If you do what I tell you, nothing will happen to you, he exclaimed impatiently, but more kindly than he had yet spoken.
human
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?
gpt
Yes,