Ah, my dear Sommers, you will learn when you go to Norwalk yourself from everybody there that all my actions have been those of an innocent man." Sommers looked doubtfully at his friend, and when he had finished speaking, he said: "Well, Bucholz, it is none of my business.

I hate to see you in this difficulty, and no matter whether you had anything to do with it or not, I will do all that I can to get you out of it.

I feel almost as badly about it as you do." "Ah, Sommers, I tremble at the thought of a verdict of guilty! I think I should die upon the spot if I should hear that word." Sommers comforted him as well as he was able to do; promised him whatever assistance that was in his power to render him, and by repeated assurances, he succeeded in quieting his fears and restoring his tranquillity.
It was finally agreed between them that Sommers should make a decided effort to be admitted to bail, and then securing his liberty, he should devote himself to the interests of his friend Bucholz, but during all their after conferences he never asserted his innocence to Edward Sommers again.
The ubiquitous Brown had not been idle; he still watched these men with ceaseless and jealous vigilance, and whenever they were together he would endeavor to approach them as closely as possible.

He saw many things that excited his curiosity, but their conversations he could not understand.

These two men were the only prisoners who spoke German, and on that account they were as secure from interruption as though no prying eyes were watching them or no suspicions were entertained in regard to their intimacy.
One day an incident occurred, however, which threatened to mar the serenity of the intercourse of these two men, who had been so strangely thrown together, but which eventually resulted in cementing their union more closely.
Sommers had retained Mr.Bollman, the attorney for Bucholz, for the purpose of having his bail reduced in order to effect his release from imprisonment.