"What man made Anne Marie cry?"
"I—I can't remember," returned the boy, a hesitant note of trouble creeping into his dead voice.
"Yes, you can," prompted Peter Grimm. "You can remember, Willem. You're afraid!"
"So you do remember the time when you were with Anne Marie?" whispered Kathrien as the lad hesitated. "You always told me you didn't. Doctor, I have the strangest feeling. A feeling that all this somehow concerns me, and that I must sift it to the bottom. Think, Willem. Who was it that came and went at the house where you lived with Anne Marie?"
"That is what I asked you, Willem," said Peter Grimm.
"That is what he asked me," replied Willem mechanically.
"Who?" demanded McPherson. "Who asked you that question, Willem?"
"Mynheer Grimm."
"When?"