Tanya had taken Rowland by the hand and led him out of the room into her own.
"His moment----" she whispered. "Let him have it--with her--alone."
There was much to say and in a few words Tanya told him what Frau Nisko had learned about the disastrous results of the riot in the hall. There had been shooting--six men and a woman had been killed, and many wounded and burned in the hall and on the stairs. Four soldiers were dead, amongst them an officer. There had been fighting in the streets but the soldiers, where they could, had permitted many to escape. Order had not been restored until the early hours of the morning, when fresh companies of troops had arrived and were now patrolling the neighborhood.
"And Von Stromberg----?"
"No one knows--he has not been seen."
"Hochwald----?"
"He either--Senf, Liederman, Fenner, Weiss--were taken away----"
"Benz?"
"I don't know. He may have escaped----"
Rowland paced the floor thoughtfully.