18
I Witness a Signature
OUTSIDE in the hall I met Kenrich.
"Well?" he queried.
I informed him that I should have a final answer on the following day.
He nodded.
"We must leave him quite alone now," he said. "He knows all the facts and he will make his decision unaided as he always does."
He opened the front door for me himself and I passed out into the quiet streets. I decided to walk back to the residence of Herr Hüber, for I felt the need of a breath of fresh air and of time for reflection.
I need hardly say that I had found the part I was playing increasingly repugnant to me as my interview with Ludenburg had advanced. It was my mission to complete the evidence of a conspiracy by obtaining his signature to a document that involved him in the designs of a group of men whose char
