‘ “Where is Annita? What have you done with her?”
‘ “I don’t know. I have already told you so,” he replied evasively.
‘ “You don’t know—‘don’t know,’ you all say. Who, then, does know where she is?” [[65]]
‘ “Well, that is just what nobody does know.”
‘ “If she is dead you may as well tell me at once.”
‘ “No, so far as I know, she is not dead.”
‘ “But where has she gone, then? In God’s name tell me what you know, and what has happened.”
‘ “She has disappeared.”
‘ “Disappeared! Why, in what way?”
‘ “About a month ago she was missed, and since that time we have neither seen nor heard anything of her.”