Mary still loves him and wants to protect him in any way she can she helps by lying about Meinike. He admits to killing Meinike and Red, but claims Meinike was in town to blackmail her and her father. Meanwhile, Mary begins to suspect her husband is not being honest with her. To further protect his secret, Kindler poisons Red. Kindler's facade begins to unravel when Red, the family dog, discovers Meinike's body. To get her to admit this, Wilson must convince her that her husband is a criminal-before Kindler decides to eliminate the threat to him by killing her. Only Mary knows that Meinike came to meet her husband. Even so, not having witnessed the meeting with Meinike, he still has no proof. Due to Rankin and Mary's marriage, he does not suspect Rankin-until Rankin says conversationally that since Karl Marx was a Jew, he was not a German. Wilson begins investigating newcomers to the small town. Instead, Kindler strangles Meinike, who might expose him. ![]() ![]() Meinike is repentant and has become a Christian, and begs Kindler to confess his own crimes. Meinike attacks Wilson, leaving him for dead, and meets Kindler. He is about to marry Mary Longstreet, daughter of Supreme Court Justice Adam Longstreet, and is involved in repairing the town's 400-year-old Habrecht-style clock mechanism with religious automata that crowns the belfry of a church in the town square. Kindler has assumed a new identity as "Charles Rankin", and has become a teacher at a local prep school. Wilson follows Meinike to a small town in Connecticut, but loses him before he meets with Kindler. Wilson releases Kindler's former associate Meinike, hoping the man will lead him to Kindler. He has left no clue to his identity except "a hobby that almost amounts to a mania-clocks." Wilson is an agent of the United Nations War Crimes Commission who is hunting for Nazi fugitive Franz Kindler, a war criminal who has erased all evidence which might identify him.
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