"Of whom are you speaking, child!" asked the doctor.
Instead of answering, Anna turned to me.
"When you reached the Lonely House on that terrible day, Herr Professor, did you not see in its neighbourhood another man beside Franz?" she asked.
"No. No one."
"I did not mean near the house itself, but on the upper path, the one leading along the rocks to Luttach?"
"I saw no one there either."
"You did not see him? I am sorry. Franz was sure yesterday that you did."
"But who in all the world should the Professor have seen!" asked the doctor curiously.
"The Judge," Anna replied. "I was sure I saw him, but I would not say so decidedly, and Franz, until yesterday, thought I might be mistaken and would not allow me to found an unjust suspicion upon an uncertain fact."
The doctor was as astonished and startled as was I by Anna's words. He desired to know more from her, and when I begged the young girl to give us her full confidence and to tell us all that she knew and believed, she yielded to our request and related what had lain so long upon her heart.