"Herr Rowland," she said clearly, "is the most honest, the most loyal man I have ever known."
"It has been said that you went to the vault to take the money to a place of safety. Whose idea was this? His or yours?"
"Mine, Herr Senf. I had reason to believe that the vault would be entered by those without authority to do so. The combination of the door was in my possession----"
"How----?" The question was stifled upon the lips of Gregory Hochwald for a heavy hand was clapped over his lips while the man beside him held him down.
"Because----" she went on firmly, with a glance at Hochwald, "at the death of Kirylo Ivanitch it was mine to keep in trust for the new Leader of the Order."
"You have heard the testimony of Herr Liederman and Herr Hochwald. Is the account of what happened at the vault true?"
"Substantially, yes."
"And Herr Hochwald managed to escape and force you to go with him and the money in an automobile?"
"Yes."
"You reached the Bayrischer Hof last night, having made the substitution of the money by a ruse?"