After a while, Franz came back from the market, and went past Kurz's shop, directly up to the Frau Pastorin's door.
"How? He has no policeman with him!" said one.
"Yes, Hoppner is not at home, he has gone to get a pig to-day, from the farmer at Prebberow."
"Oh, that is all right, then."
"How Habermann will feel, when he finds himself caught!" said Wimmersdorf.
"Children, my feet are getting cold," said Bank, the shoemaker, "I am going home."
"What? You may as well wait till the business comes to a head," said Thiel, the cabinet-maker.
"What do you know about it?" said Bank. "It seems to me as if there was'nt a word of truth in the whole story."
"What? You told me the story, yourself, this morning," said Thiel.
"Yes, that is so, but morning talk is not evening talk. I have considered the matter since then."