It was Gretchen who drew back fearfully.
"After all, will it not be foolish ?" she suggested.
"They will be searching for me," he answered.
"It will be easier if I present myself.

It will bear testimony that I am innocent of any wrong." "I will go in with you," determinedly.
The police officer, or, to be more particular, the sub-chief of the bureau, received them with ill-concealed surprise.
"I have learned that you are seeking me," said the vintner, taking off his cap.

His yellow curls waved about his forehead in moist profusion.
Immediately the sub-chief did not know what to say.

This was out of the ordinary, conspicuously so.

There was little precedent by which to act in a case like this.