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 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_!" "Hang? But I have done nothing!" Anna was now almost in a state of collapse, and he saw his mistake. "You are in no real danger at all if you will only do exactly what I tell you," he declared, impressively. "Yes," she faltered. "Yes, Herr Hegner, indeed I will obey you." He looked round him hastily. "Never, never call me that!" he exclaimed. "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." She looked at him dumbly. "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." "But I've already said," she confessed, distractedly, "that they were brought to me by a friend of his." "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?" "No," she said slowly. "No, I have said nothing of that."