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"I go out," he said, to the impassive figure under the lamp. "You
will stay in."
"Oh, I don't know. I may take a walk."
"You will stay in," he repeated, and followed Rudolph outside.
There he reached in, secured the key, and locked the door on the
outside. Anna, listening and white with anger, heard his ponderous
steps going around to the back door, and the click as he locked that
one also.
"Beast!" she muttered. "German schwein."
It was after midnight when she heard him coming back. She prepared
to leap out of her bed when he came up-stairs, to confront him
angrily and tell him she was through. She was leaving home. But
long after she had miserably cried herself to sleep, Herman sat
below, his long-stemmed pipe in his teeth, his stockinged feet
spread to the dying fire.
In that small guarded hail that night he had learned many surprising
things, there and at Gus's afterward. The Fatherland's war was
already being fought in America, and not only by Germans.


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