Seven for a Secret

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Genres: Fiction
When Ruth opened the door onto the dark-wood-paneled hallway, Herr Professor Schroeder had only just risen from the closest of a row of three intricate, high-backed Macintosh chairs. His briar still smoked on the stamped tin dish on a side table, a gold-rimmed coffee cup resting on a mismatched saucer beside it. He wore blue cloth slippers and striped pajamas under a diamond-quilted dressing gown.
„Miss Grell,” he said, in German. „Miss Kneeland.
I suppose you do not need me to tell you that you have endangered your privileges here.”
If Ruth’s name was first, did that mean she had been identified as the ringleader? If it would protect Adele, she’d accept the punishment. Though if it led Herr Professor to look too deeply into her background— Well, that couldn’t be helped now. She could only hope that it would seem less suspicious to brazen it out. „It is my fault we were delayed, Herr Professor Schroeder,” Ruth answered, also in German. „I insisted we walk further, and misjudged the ti
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