Frank had wound his arm round me, and he drew me quite close to him, so that I had to look up directly into his face.
His look boded ill, he smiled maliciously, and his face was full of cruelty and power.
“Now, kid, I can tell you whose the garden is. I have known for a long time that the apples had been stolen,
and I also know that the man said he would give two marks to anyone who would tell him who stole the fruit.”
“Good heavens!” I exclaimed. “But you won’t tell him anything?”
I felt it was useless to appeal to his sense of honor.
He came from the other world; for him betrayal was no crime.
I felt that for a certainty. In these matters people from the “other” world were not like us.
“Say nothing?” laughed Kromer. “Look here, my friend, d’you think I am minting money and can make two shilling pieces myself?
I’m a poor chap, and I haven’t got a rich father like yours, and when I get the chance of earning two shillings I must take it.
He might even give me more.” Suddenly he let me go free.
Our house no longer gave me an impression of peace and safety, the world fell to pieces around me.
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