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"For God's sake, Herr major, you won't abuse my confidence. I should never forgive myself if anything I said were to harm Herr Amelungen." "Do not be unnecessarily anxious. Nothing will happen either to you or to Herr Amelungen, if you can induce him to change sides and help us for the future instead of the English." Penurot hung down his head and remained silent.
"One thing more, Herr Amelungen," said he. "About the same time as the search begins here, another will take place in your private house. I expect the report of those entrusted with it at any moment." Amelungen breathed hard. He looked nervously at Heideck, as if trying to read his thoughts. Then, after a brief struggle with himself, he whispered "Send these men out, Herr major!
We know so much already that presumably it will be of little use to you to have recourse to lies." Amelungen played with his penholder, but his hands trembled visibly, and words failed him. His face had turned ashy pale, and Heideck could not help feeling sorry for him. "I regret that my duty obliges me to proceed against you," he continued. "I can easily understand your motives.
I have never received a penny from the English." "Well but, without special reasons, a man doesn't amuse himself by paying a visit to a herring-smack at night. The cargo could have been delivered to Herr Eberhard Amelungen without your inspection." "Eberhard Amelungen?" "Don't pretend to be so ignorant. Brandelaar has already confessed so much, that you can easily admit the rest.
When he had finished his letter, he looked over the words he had written, in which, contrary to his usual practice, he had given utterance to his real feelings: "MY DEAR EDITH, In the exercise of my duty, I accidentally came into possession of your letter to Frau Amelungen.
He is fond of me and provides for me. It was he who bought the business in Breskens for me. But his wife, who is English, has no liking for me." "I understand you even less than before. If you have such resources at your disposal, why on earth do you mix yourself up in such dangerous undertakings?" "Herr Amelungen wished it." "So, then, he really is the guilty party?"
Certainly he felt sure in advance that they would find nothing, for Eberhard Amelungen would have been very foolish not to have reckoned long ago on the possibility of such a visit, and to have taken precautions accordingly. The Major, in bringing the police with him, had thought more of the moral impression of the whole procedure. His knowledge of men told him that it had its effect.
"But you won't take me before the court-martial?" "That remains to be seen. I can promise you nothing. Everything will depend on the information which Herr Amelungen gives me about you, and on your future behaviour. I will now have Brandelaar down again, and you will remain silent while I speak to him." "Of course, I will do everything the Herr major tells me."
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