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Otway sat there, waiting she knew not quite for what, old Anna sat knitting in her kitchen on the other side of the hall, also restlessly longing for something, anything, to happen, which would give her news of what was really going on in the Fatherland. All her heart, during these last three days, had been with Minna and Willi in far-off Berlin.
And yet this matter she had kept so closely hidden within herself for three years was a very simple thing, after all! Only the taking charge of a number of parcels four, as a matter of fact for a gentleman who was incidentally one of Willi Warshauer's chiefs. The person who had brought them to the Trellis House had come in the March of 1912, and she remembered him very distinctly.
She had not told her daughter of this arrangement, and it had been spoken of by Willi and her niece more as a joke than anything else; still, Anna generally managed to carry through what she had made up her mind to accomplish. But on this August morning, standing there by the kitchen window of the Trellis House, the future was far from good old Anna's mind. Her mind was fixed on the present.
"I gave my solemn promise to Willi to say nothing," said Anna, "and I am not one who ever breaks my word, Mr. Hegner." "That I am sure you are not! And Frau Bauer? Do not attempt to write to the Fatherland henceforth. Your letters would be opened, your business all spied out, and then the letters destroyed! I am at your disposal for any information you require.
"Is not that so?" he said, looking at her fixedly. And at last she stammered out, "Yes, that is so. But but do you then know Willi, Mr. Hegner?" The man sitting opposite to her remained silent for a moment. He hadn't the slightest idea who "Willi" was. "Ach, yes! It is from him that you generally receive this money every six months I had forgotten that! Willi is a good fellow.
She shook back the soft curls with a little sigh. "It's queer and old, and funny some of the words. And the writing is blurred and yellow. Look." She held up the open sheet. The keen old eyes darted at it. "Work on it," she said brusquely. "I have, grandmamma." "Well what did ye find?" "It's a man Will Willi" she turned to the bottom of the last page "Willibald! That's it." She laughed softly.
Half a dozen intimates of the consul dropped in about four, Willi, the rich dentist and acting American consul; Stevens, the London broker; Hobson, who closed an eye for the Moorean, McTavish; and others. All were British except me, but our home tongue and customs drew us closer together than to Frenchmen, and we could speak with some freedom on local affairs.
The money she had saved was her own money! She could not understand by what right the British Government could prevent her taking it with her. It was this money alone that would ensure a welcome from the Warshauers. Willi and Minna could not be expected to want her unless she brought with her enough, not only to feed herself, but to give them a little help in these hard times.
Captain Price tendered seven hundred dollars, which was two hundred more than Mr. Willi had paid. He therefore thought best to accept the offer. I was wanted for a carriage driver, and Mrs. Price was very much pleased with the captain's bargain. His family consisted besides of one child. He had three servants besides myself one man and two women. Mrs.
I would dream at night that I was in Canada, a freeman, and on waking in the morning, weep to find myself so sadly mistaken. "I would think of Victoria's domain, And in a moment I seemed to be there! But the fear of being taken again, Soon hurried me back to despair." Mr. Willi treated me better than Dr.
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