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"Why did you not tell me?"
"We're not talking much these days, are we?"
He let her go then, and that night, in the little room behind Gustav
Shroeder's saloon, he put the question to Rudolph. Because he was
excited and frightened he made slow work of his inquiry, and Rudolph
had a moment to think.
"Sure," he replied. "All the girls in the executive offices got them."
But when the meeting was over, Rudolph did not go back to his
boarding-house. He walked the streets and thought.
He had saved Anna from her father. But he was of no mind to save
her from himself. She would have to account to him for that watch.
Anna herself lay awake until late. She saw already the difficulties
before her. Herman was suspicious. He might inquire. There were
other girls from the mill offices on the hill. And he might speak
to Rudolph.
The next evening she found Rudolph waiting for her outside the mill
gate. Together they started up what had been, when Herman bought
the cottage, a green hill with a winding path.


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