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WEHRHAHN
[_Amused._] Is there anything else of importance?
GLASENAPP
Nothing but minor matters, your honour--somebody giving notice--
WEHRHAHN
That'll do; that'll do. Do you happen ever to have heard any reports to the effect that this Dr. Fleischer does not guard his tongue with particular care?
GLASENAPP
Not that I know of at this moment.
WEHRHAHN
Because that is the information that has come to me. He is said to have made illegal remarks concerning a number of exalted personages. However, all that will appear in good time. We can set to work now. Mitteldorf, have you anything to report?
MITTELDORF
They tell me that a theft has been committed during the night.
WEHRHAHN
A theft? Where?
MITTELDORF
In the Villa Krueger.
WEHRHAHN
What has been stolen?
MITTELDORF
Some firewood.
WEHRHAHN
Last night, or when?
MITTELDORF
Just last night.
WEHRHAHN
From whom does your information come?
MITTELDORF
My information? It come from ... from....
WEHRHAHN
Well, from whom? Out with it!
MITTELDORF
I heard it from--I got it from Dr. Fleischer.
WEHRHAHN
Aha! You're in the habit then of conversing with him?
MITTELDORF
Mr. Krueger told me about it himself too.
WEHRHAHN
The man is a nuisance with his perpetual complaints. He writes me about three letters a week. Either he has been cheated, or some one has broken his fence, or else some one has trespa.s.sed on his property. Nothing but one annoyance after another.
MOTES
[_Enters. He laughs almost continually in a nervous way._] Beg to bid you a good morning, your honour.
WEHRHAHN
Ah, there you are. Very glad you came in. You can help me out with some information at once. A theft is said to have been committed at the Villa Krueger.
MOTES
I don't live there any longer.
WEHRHAHN
And nothing has come to your ears either?
MOTES
Oh, I heard something about it, but nothing definite. As I was just pa.s.sing by the Villa I saw them both looking for traces in the snow.
WEHRHAHN
Is that so? Dr. Fleischer is a.s.sisting him. I take it for granted then that they're pretty thick together?
