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WEHRHAHN
You need not become violent. What is your name, by the way?
KRUEGER
[_Taken aback._] My name?
WEHRHAHN
Yes, your name!
KRUEGER
So my name isn't known to you? I thought we had had the pleasure before.
WEHRHAHN
Sorry. Can't say that I have a clear recollection. And that wouldn't matter officially anyhow.
KRUEGER
[_Resignedly._] My name is Krueger.
WEHRHAHN
Capitalist by any chance?
KRUEGER
[_With extreme and ironic vehemence._] Exactly--capitalist and houseowner here.
WEHRHAHN
Identify yourself, please.
KRUEGER
I--Identify myself! My name is Krueger. I don't think we need go to any further trouble. I've been living here for thirty years. Every child in the place knows me.
WEHRHAHN
The length of your residence here doesn't concern me. It is my business merely to ascertain your ident.i.ty. Is this gentleman known to you--Mr.
Motes?
_MOTES half rises with an angry expression._
WEHRHAHN
Ah, yes, I understand. Kindly sit down. Well, Glasenapp?
GLASENAPP
Yes, at your service. It is Mr. Krueger all right.
WEHRHAHN
Very well.--So you have been robbed of wood?
KRUEGER
Of wood, exactly. Two loads of pine wood.
WEHRHAHN
Did you have the wood stored in your shed?
KRUEGER
[_Growing violent again._] That's quite a separate matter. That's the substance of another complaint I have to make.
WEHRHAHN
[_With an ironic laugh and looking at the others._] Still another one?
KRUEGER
What do you mean?
WEHRHAHN
Nothing. You may go ahead with your statement. The wood, it appears, was not in your shed?
KRUEGER
The wood was in the garden, that is, in front of the garden.
WEHRHAHN
In other words: it lay in the street.
KRUEGER
It lay in front of the garden on my property.
WEHRHAHN
So that any one could pick it up without further ado?
