his hat around their heads an' sayin': Out with the low strumpet! That's
what they is all of a sudden when it's he that made 'em--_what_ they
is!--Oh, an' then he's a great friend o' Wehrhahn's an' grunts out like a
swine in public meetin's: There ain't no more morality these days ... an'
there ought to be laws against such doin's ... an' so on, an' so on ...
an' if you'd like to go to church, there the old rotten sinner sits an'
turns up his eyes. [_A distant ringing of church bells if heard._] Listen
to that! The sparrow is singin'.--I always calls that the sparrow,
Doctor. I always says: the sparrow sings. I mean when them bells is
ringin'. An' ain't I right that it's the sparrow that sings? 'Cause since
Wehrhahn got that bird in his buttonhole them bells has begun to ring.
An' if the bells didn't go an' ring, why he wouldn't have no decoration
neither.
_EDE comes in grinning and carrying three steins of beer._
EDE
Oho, listen there, the sparrow is singin'.
LANGHEINRICH
Well, you see, he don't call it nothin' else no more. [_Each of the three
holds a stein. They knock them together._] Your health! An' welcome back
to the old country! [_They drink._] That's a fine evenin' this mornin'.
I'd like to see this night by day.
DR. BOXER
Now I'm goin' to blaspheme a bit. I'm not opposed to the building of
churches at all.
LANGHEINRICH
An' I ain't neither. People gets work! I didn't get any this time,
though. An' even if there's a little trouble now an' then, Pastor
Friderici an' a bit o' nonsense with coloured windows an' altar
cloths--that don't do no harm. People has to have a little.
DR. BOXER
Yes, those people are entitled to cultivate their own pleasures. And
then, Langheinrich, a higher principle has to be represented somehow.
LANGHEINRICH
Sure, an' it brings people out here too, you c'n believe me. Buildin'
lots has gone up considerable.
EDE
That's so. An' there was a man onct that didn't have no roof over his
head ... No, that ain't the way to begin what I want to say.--I was onct
out on the heath--far out. All of a sudden: what d'you think I heard,
Doctor! I heard a dickens of a screechin'.--I goes up to it. Crows! Yes,
sir. There was a feller hangin' high up in a pine tree--tailor's
journeyman from over in Berkenbruck: he hanged hisself on account o'
starvation--hanged hisself high up.--Yes, there's always got to be
somethin' higher!
[_While they finish drinking their beer the long-drawn cries of pain
of a man's voice are heard from some distance. The wind has risen
considerably._
DR. BOXER
What is that?
EDE
Rauchhaupt. Nothin' to worry about.
LANGHEINRICH
Sounds kind o' gruesome, don't it? 'Tain't nothin' very lovely neither.
When that feller's pains in his leg gets hold o' him an' he roars out
that way o' nights--that goes right through an' through any one. No,
before I'd stand pain like that I'd go an' put a bullet through my head.
EDE
Gee-rusalem! That's a wind again. Look out, Doctor, that your hat don't
fly away.
_A hat is whirled by the wind along the street. SCHMAROWSKI, hatless,
a roll of paper in his hand, runs chasing it._
EDE
Run along, sonny! Right on there! Show us what you c'n do!
DR. BOXER
That hat is tired of his position: wants a holiday.
SCHMAROWSKI
[_Who has recovered his hat, turns angrily to DR. BOXER._] What was that
very appropriate remark you made just now?
DR. BOXER
That you are an excellent runner.
SCHMAROWSKI
Schmarowski!
DR. BOXER
Boxer!
SCHMAROWSKI
Much pleased.--Now I'd like to ask you a question. Do you know what a
fathead is?
DR. BOXER
No.
SCHMAROWSKI
You don't? Neither do I. But now tell me: you know what a _schlemihl_ is,
I suppose.
LANGHEINRICH
Nothin' broke loose here? What's all this about? Easy now, easy! Howdy
do, Mr. Schmarowski? How are you? Have you come to visit your
mother-in-law?
SCHMAROWSKI
I have business here!--And before I forget it, I should like to say: Have
the goodness to be more careful.
DR. BOXER
Who is this amusing gentleman, Langheinrich?
EDE
That's Mrs. Wolff's son-in-law.
SCHMAROWSKI
I'll have no dealings with you at all.
EDE
Naw, you better not.
SCHMAROWSKI
Not with you--[_Turning to DR. BOXER._] But if you don't know who I am,
you can get information from Baron von Wehrhahn, the Right Reverend
Bishop, the Baroness Bielschewski and the Countess Strach.
DR. BOXER
You want me to go around and get information from all those people?
SCHMAROWSKI
That's what you're to do--just that an' nothing else. Then maybe you can
be more careful in future an' look people over before you talk.
LANGHEINRICH
What's gotten into you to-day? You're so dam' touchy!
SCHMAROWSKI
[_To DR. BOXER, who has glanced at EDE and LANGHEINRICH alternately with
serene laughter._] You just be so good an' be more careful: we ain't so
soft. We don't take jokes so easy, especially not from the race to which
you ...
LANGHEINRICH
Hold on, Mr. Schmarowski! That's enough! Nothin' like that here. That's
enough an' too much, Mr. Schmarowski. You just see about gettin' along on
your way now.
SCHMAROWSKI
Do you know where I am going straight from here?
LANGHEINRICH
You c'n go straight ahead to the Lord hisself! You c'n go where you want
to, Schmarowski; only, don't be keepin' me from my work. We ain't got no
time to lose here!--Ede, put that axle in!
_SCHMAROWSKI exit, enraged._
EDE
Good-bye!
DR. BOXER
So that was Mr. Schmarowski, the envied pillar of the church? Why, he's a
poisonous little devil!
LANGHEINRICH
Yes, you're right there! Pois'nous is what he is. So you didn't, know
him, Dr. Boxer? Well, then you've seen him now--nothin' but a little,
sly, venomous pup! But you ought to go an' watch him when he gets in with
that pious crowd. Then he lets his ears hang, so 'umble his own mother
wouldn't hardly know him, like as if he was sayin': I ain't goin' to live
more'n two weeks at--most an' then I'm goin' to heaven to be with Jesus.
Yes! Likely! There's another place where he's goin'. But that won't be
soon. He ain't thinkin' of it much yet. An' in the meantime he rolls his
eyes upward 'cause somethin' might be hangin' round that he c'n make a
profit on.
EDE
Well, you c'n look out now! Yon ain't goin' to get no work on the new
institution.
LANGHEINRICH
I know that. Can't be helped. Things is as they is. Can't hold' my tongue
at things like that. I won't learn that in a lifetime.
DR. BOXER
Have you many of that kind hereabouts now?
LANGHEINRICH
So, so. Enough to last for the winter.
_RAUCHHAUPT has come out of the little gate. He faces the wind,
shades his eyes with his hand and peers around._
RAUCHHAUPT
Lord A'mighty! Well, well! Things is goin' the queerest way to-day! When
is they comin' back--them Fielitzes?
LANGHEINRICH
That ain't goin' to be so very soon to-day. They've gone to buy a
seven-day clock, a regulator. What are you upset about to-day?
RAUCHHAUPT
Wha'? Fielitz goin' to buy that kind of a clock? I don't believe's he c'n
survive that. [_Calls._] Gustav!
LANGHEINRICH
Ain't he come back yet? I guess he's listenin' to the bells. You know how
he sits an' listens when they ring.
RAUCHHAUPT
I don't know. Things is goin' queer to-day. Mrs. Fielitz sent for him to
come over. Horseradish seed is what she said she wanted. An' then she
goes an' leaves for the city.
[_Exit, shaking his head._
EDE
They been stalkin' about since four o'clock in the mornin'. Up an' down
they went with their bull's-eye lantern. I don't believe they went to bed
at all.
LANGHEINRICH
Well, if Fielitz has gone to buy a clock you can't expect him to eat or
drink or sleep.
RAUCHHAUPT
[_Behind the fence._] Gustav!
DR. BOXER
The boy is coming now, running along.
LANGHEINRICH
That's right. Rauchhaupt! Here's Gustav!
_GUSTAV comes prancing up, highly excited, gesticulating violently.
He points in the direction from which he has come._
EDE
Is that there a war dance you're tryin' to perform? Looks like the
cannibals' goin's on. I believe that brat feeds on human flesh.
LANGHEINRICH
Hurry now an' run to your father.
EDE
Go on now!
LANGHEINRICH
Get along with your horse-radish.
_GUSTAV gesticulating, puts his hollow hand to his mouth and toots in
imitation of a trumpet. Laughter._
EDE
Where's the fire, you little firebrand?
LANGHEINRICH
Ede, catch hold o' him!
EDE
All right. [_He tries to creep up to GUSTAV. The latter observes this,
gives a loud toot and, still tooting, hurries away, dropping a box of
matches as he does so._] Hallo!
LANGHEINRICH
What's that?
EDE
Just what I need.
LANGHEINRICH
What?
EDE
Safetys! A whole box full.
_MRS. SCHULZE comes rushing down the stairs._
MRS. SCHULZE
Mr. Langheinrich!
LANGHEINRICH
Well, what?
MRS. SCHULZE
Mr. Langheinrich!
LANGHEINRICH
Here I is!
MRS. SCHULZE
It's ... it's ... it's ... over at ...
LANGHEINRICH
Anything about the missis?
MRS. SCHULZE
No, at Fielitzes'.
LANGHEINRICH
Is that so? Nothin' about my wife? Well, then,--[_he shakes her_]--just
stop to get your breath. Things is as they is. I'm prepared for
anythin'--life an' death. I gotta stand it.
MRS. SCHULZE
The engine!
LANGHEINRICH
What kind o' talk is that? Anythin' wrong with you?
MRS. SCHULZE
No; it's burnin'!
LANGHEINRICH
Go an' blow it out then!--Where is it burnin'!
MRS. SCHULZE
At the Fielitzes'!
LANGHEINRICH
Good Lord! That ain't possible!
[_He drops the iron file and some nails which he has been holding._
EDE
Where's the fire?
MRS. SCHULZE
At Fielitzes'; the flame is comin' out o' the skylight.
DR. BOXER
[_Has stepped forward._] Confound it all, but it's smoky! Come here! You
can see it well from here.
EDE
[_Also stares in the direction of the fire. His expression shows that a
complete understanding of the situation has come to him, which he
expresses by a conscious whistling._] There ain't no words for this; I
just gotta whistle.
LANGHEINRICH
Ede! Run over to Scheibler's! Run! Get the horses for the engine! That
smoke's comin' up thick over the gable.
[_He rushes into the smithy, throws his apron aside, puts on a
fireman's helmet, belt, etc._
MRS. SCHULZE
An' nobody at home there, goodness gracious!
DR. BOXER
That's the lucky part of it, after all.
_The roaring of the fire alarm trumpet is heard._
MRS. SCHULZE
You hear, Doctor? They're tootin' already!
LANGHEINRICH
[_Reappears in his fireman's uniform._] You get out o' the way here, old
lady. Go an' attend to things upstairs. Nothin' to be done here with a
syringe. You go up to my wife. Hold on! We gotta have the key to the
engine house. The devil!
_MRS. SCHULZE withdraws into the house. RAUCHHAUPT'S head reappears
on the other side of the fence._
RAUCHHAUPT
My, but there's a smell o' burnin' in the air.
LANGHEINRICH
Sure it smells that way. There's a fire at the Fielitzes'.
RAUCHHAUPT
The devil! I didn't know nothin' about that!
LANGHEINRICH
That's all right, old man. Wasn't you a constable onct?
[_He rushes away._
_A fourteen-year-old boy comes madly hurrying up._
THE BOY
[_To DR. BOXER._] Master! The key to the engine house! They can't get in
to the engine.
DR. BOXER
I'm not the fireman! Just keep cool!
THE BOY
They wants you to come to the engine right off.
DR. BOXER
You didn't hear what I told you.
THE BOY
There's a fire!
DR. BOXER
I know that. The engine master has left. He's reached the engine long
ago.
THE BOY
There's a fire. They wants you to come down to the engine!
[_He runs away._
_RAUCHHAUPT appears at the gate. Two LITTLE GIRLS cling to his rags._
RAUCHHAUPT
I'm used to that! It don't excite me a bit! Mieze! Lottie! You c'n come
an' see somethin'.--I seen hundreds an' hundreds o' fires,
DR. BOXER
[_Takes off the leathern apron._] It's a very sad thing for those people,
though!
RAUCHHAUPT
Everythin' is sad in this here world. It's all a question o' how you
looks at it! The same thing that's sad c'n be mighty cheerin'. Now
there's me: I raises pineapples, an' my hothouse wall ... it's right up
against Fielitzes' back wall. Now I won't have to keep no fire goin' for
three days.
_A somewhat OLDER GIRL also comes out through the gate and nestles
close up to the others. MRS. SCHULZE leans out from the window in the
gable._
MRS. SCHULZE
[_Addressing someone in the room behind her._] Missis, you c'n be reel
quiet! The wind's blowin' from the other side.
[_She disappears._
RAUCHHAUPT
Did you see that there old witch? She always knows where the wind comes
from.--I retired from all that, yessir! I didn't want to be a old
bloodhound right along. I don't mix in them things no more. But that
woman--she could be a keen one. [_A fireman, blowing his horn very
excitedly, walks by._] Go it easy, August! Patience! Look out, or your
breeches will bust!
THE FIREMAN
[_Enraged._] Aw, shut up! Go an' hide yourself in the holes you're always
diggin.
[_Exit._
_A FOURTH and a FIFTH GIRL, aged nine and ten years respectively,
join the old man._
DR. BOXER
[_Laughing._] That's quite a fierce fellow.
RAUCHHAUPT
Gussie, Nelly, gimme your hand.--That's all nothin' but hurry. That
feller don't know what's goin' on in this world. He's blowin' the trumpet
of Jericho, I'm thinkin', or maybe even the trump o' Judgment Day!--
DR. BOXER
I don't think I quite take your meaning, Mr. Rauchhaupt.
RAUCHHAUPT
Maybe Mrs. Wolff was only tryin' to scorch roaches. All right. Maybe, for
all I care, 'twas somethin' else. But if Mrs. Wolff ever puts _her_ hand
to somethin'--there ain't very much left.
DR. BOXER
What do you mean by that?
RAUCHHAUPT
Oh, I was just thinkin'.
[_He withdraws, together with the children._
THE CURTAIN FALLS
THE THIRD ACT
_The court-room of JUSTICE VON WEHRHAHN. A large, white-washed room
level with the ground. The main door is in the left wall. Along the
wall to the right is the large official table covered with books,
documents, etc. Behind it stands the chair of the justice. By the
middle window, small table and chair for the clerk of the court. In
the foreground, right, a book case of soft wood, and on the left
wall, shelves for documents and records. A small door in the
background. Several chairs._
_GLASENAPP sits at his small table. The JUSTICE'S chair is
unoccupied._
_In front of the official table DR. BOXER, LANGHEINRICH in his
uniform of a captain of the fire brigade, EDE and THREE FIREMEN are
waiting. They are engaged in a rather excited conversation. All are
red with heat, stained with mud, wet and sooty._
_MRS. SCHULZE, somewhat pale, is resting in a chair and waiting
likewise. She is in a very thoughtful mood. Repeatedly she takes off
her headkerchief and puts it on again and arranges her grey hair._
_The action takes place on the same day as that of the first act,
five hours later._
_The conversation suddenly ceases._
_JUSTICE VON WEHRHAHN enters betraying a high degree of official
zeal. He covers his left eye with his left hand as though in pain,
sits down behind the table, takes his hand from his eye, which
twitches painfully, and begins._
WEHRHAHN
Well, what's the result of this wretched mess?
LANGHEINRICH
[_Noticeably stimulated by exertion, whiskey and beer._] I've come to
announce, Baron, that the whole business is burned down.
WEHRHAHN
[_Throwing down on the table an object which he has brought with him. It
is seen to be a photograph in a frame of deer feet._] That's because
you're all only half awake! You're all made that way. Yon drowse around
and do nothing. We're not three miles distant from Berlin; our entire
activity should have a different air!
EDE
[_Softly to DR. BOXER._] The fire did have air enough, eh?
LANGHEINRICH
Your honour....
WEHRHAHN
Never mind. I know all about it.
[_He pulls out his handkerchief, wipes the perspiration from his
forehead and taps his eye._
LANGHEINRICH
Your honour, I'd like to lay claim, humbly, to some credit ... We did our
part honestly. We was on the spot with the engine.
WEHRHAHN
Then get a better engine!
LANGHEINRICH
But if you can't get no water!
WEHRHAHN
You managed to get plenty of beer.
LANGHEINRICH
-----------?
EDE
Puttin' out a fire makes you thirsty!
WEHRHAHN
That seems undoubtedly to have been the case.--Glasenapp, will you come
and look? Something flew into my eye. [_GLASENAPP jumps up and
investigates._] I had just examined Mrs. Schulze when the north gable
caved in. It must have been a spark or something like that.--By the way,
hasn't Mrs. Schulze been here?
MRS. SCHULZE
Here I is.
GLASENAPP
Yes, Baron.
_WEHRHAHN motions him away. GLASENAPP steps back and goes over to his
table._
WEHRHAHN
To proceed, then. It has come to my ears ... Mrs. Schulze has informed
me, that a certain incident took place in front of your smithy.--It seems
that you saw that worthless boy immediately before the flame rose and
that he had a box of matches. How is it now with this story of the
matches? Tell us what you know!
LANGHEINRICH
He had a box o' matches. That's so.
WEHRHAHN
And he let it fall.
EDE
An' I picked it up. Yessir.
WEHRHAHN
You?
EDE
Me. Same person you see. Here's the box. All the matches ain't there no
more 'cause I smoked several times ...
[_He places the box of matches on the official table._]
WEHRHAHN
[_Unpleasantly impressed by EDE'S manner, takes up the box and fixes his
eyes upon him._] You helped along vigorously, I suppose?
EDE
You bet! 'Tain't no fun otherwise.
WEHRHAHN
I meant especially in the consumption of beer.
EDE
That's what I thought you meant. Yessir!
WEHRHAHN
You seem to be in a very playful mood.
EDE
Merry an' larky--that's my motto, your honour!
WEHRHAHN
Delighted to hear that, I must say.--Look here, are you Dr. Boxer?
DR. BOXER
Quite right. Dr. Boxer.
WEHRHAHN
So you are he! Aha! I would hardly have recognised you. Your mother still
has the little notion shop here.... Your father was a--er--tradesman--?
DR. BOXER
[_Voluntarily misunderstanding him._] Yes, my father was in the reserve
forces and was decorated with the Iron Cross in 1870.
WEHRHAHN
Ah, yes. Of course. I recall.--Your mother came running to my office
recently and brought along several stones. Her kitchen windows had been
broken, I believe. Mischievous boys, no doubt. I investigated, of course.
I'm told you want to settle down here?--There's a very good physician
here now--formerly of the army staff--very capable.
DR. BOXER
I don't doubt that for a moment.
WEHRHAHN
To be quite frank--as things are now--I wonder whether this is an
appropriate territory for you?
DR. BOXER
I can take some time to discover that.
WEHRHAHN
Naturally. So can we. So continue, please.--What was it that you
observed, Dr. Boxer?
DR. BOXER
The incident of the matches certainly.
WEHRHAHN
The incident of the horn blowing and of the matches.
DR. BOXER
Certainly.
WEHRHAHN
Where were you when all this took place?
DR. BOXER
I stood in front of Langheinrich's smithy.
WEHRHAHN
Did you have any particular business there?--You needn't get impatient at
all. I understand that it doesn't concern me at present. Your sympathetic
affinity for the working classes is known to us from of old.--The boy
will be arrested now. I imagine that Constable Tschache has captured him.
At all events--is on his trail. He was seen, in Rahnsdorf too. Please
call in Sadowa!
[_GLASENAPP withdraws by the rear door._
DR. BOXER
Am I dismissed now, your honour?
WEHRHAHN
Extremely sorry; no. Kindly wait.--Mrs. Schulze, where is your nephew
keeping himself today? I haven't seen him all day long. Does any one know
where Constable Schulze is?
EDE
[_Softly._] He might send out a warrant after him.
WEHRHAHN
Doesn't any one know where Constable Schulze is?--Has any one interviewed
Mrs. Fielitz? Or hasn't she returned from Berlin yet?--I want somebody to
go to Councillor Reinberg.--[_To GLASENAPP, who is just returning._] Mr.
Schmarowski, Mrs. Fielitz's son-in-law, is there submitting his
building-plans. The news should be broken to him gently.
EDE
[_Softly to BOXER and LANGHEINRICH._] Yes, gently, so he don't stumble
over the church steeple.
[_DR. BOXER and LANGHEINRICH restrain their laughter with
difficulty._]
WEHRHAHN
[_Observing this._] Does that strike you as very amusing?--I don't know
what other reason you should have to laugh, Langheinrich. When people are
hardworking and ambitious and a fright like this comes to them--a
visitation from God--we might properly say: God protect us from such
things! I see nothing to laugh at.--Did you have the impression ... did
the boy seem to you ... I mean, in reference to this affair--as if things
were not quite right with him?
EDE
[_Softly to BOXER and LANGHEINRICH._] We knows where he ain't quite
right!
WEHRHAHN
Did he arouse your suspicion? Yes or no? Or did the thought actually
occur to you that he might have started the fire?
DR. BOXER
No. I have become too much of a stranger here. The conditions seem to
overwhelm me.
WEHRHAHN
In what respect?
DR. BOXER
[_With assumed seriousness._] I have returned from a very narrow life.
Out on the ocean one becomes accustomed to a certain narrowness of
outlook. And so, as I said, I hardly feel capable of any comment for the
present and must ask for the necessary consideration.
WEHRHAHN
We're not discussing conditions. The thing that lies before us is a
concrete case. For instance: whether the boy tootled or not--what has
that to do with narrowness or breadth of outlook?
DR. BOXER
Quite right. I haven't been able to get a general view yet. I can't so
suddenly find my way again. I feel, naturally, the importance, the
seriousness of the conditions here at home and that makes me feel
hesitant.
WEHRHAHN
He did tootle this way, through his hand, didn't he? You heard that too,
didn't you, Langheinrich?
LANGHEINRICH
Sure, he did it right out loud.
EDE
When a feller tootles so tootin'ly that you c'n rightly say he's
tootlin', then you c'n hear that there tootlin' tootin'ly.
WEHRHAHN
[_To LANGHEINRICH._] Did you observe anything else that aroused your
suspicions? I mean, while you were extinguishing the fire? Were there any
indications that pointed in another direction, or that might, at least,
point in another direction? [_LANGHEINRICH thinks for a moment, then
shakes his head._] You didn't get inside of the house, did you?
LANGHEINRICH
I just barely glanced into the room. Then the ceiling came crashin' down.
A hair's breadth sooner an' I'd ha' been smothered.
WEHRHAHN
The fire was started from without. Constable Tschache is quite right in
that supposition. Probably from behind where the goatshed is. That would
also be in agreement with your evidence, Mrs. Schulze! You saw him creep
around the house. Right above the goatshed there is a window from which,
as a rule, straw was sticking out. I myself made that observation. And
this window gives on Rauchhaupt's garden. This window tempted the boy. It
tempted him because he had it daily before his eyes. So he simply climbed
on the roof of the shed and from there reached the sky-light. Very
pleasant neighbour to have--I must say!--Who's that crossing the street
and howling so?
GLASENAPP
[_Looks through the window._] Shoemaker Fielitz and his wife.
WEHRHAHN
What? Is that Mrs. Fielitz who comes howling so? It's enough to melt the
heart of a stone.
_MRS. FIELITZ, whose loud, convulsive weeping has been audible before
she appeared, enters, leaning upon the SEXTON and followed by HER
HUSBAND, who carries a large, new clock carefully in his arms.
FIELITZ and HIS WIFE are both in their Sunday clothes._
WEHRHAHN
Well, heavens and earth, Mrs. Fielitz! Trust in the Lord! Our trust in
the Lord--that's the main thing! This isn't a killing matter.--Get a
drink of brandy, Nickel! Go over and ask my wife for it. Mrs. Fielitz has
got to be brought to her senses first.--Do me a favour, Mrs. Fielitz, and
stop your outburst of tears. I can feel for you, when it comes to that.
Quite a severe blow of fate. Have any valuables been destroyed? [_MRS.
FIELITZ weeps more violently._] Mrs. Fielitz! Mrs. Fielitz! Listen to me!
Please listen to what I say to you! Kindly don't lose your reason! D'you
understand? Don't lose your head! You're generally a sensible
woman.--Well, if you won't, you won't.--[_NICKEL, who has been gone for a
moment, returns with a brandy bottle and a small glass._]--Give her the
brandy; quick,--I'll address myself to you, Fielitz. I see that you're
quite collected, at least. That's the way a man ought to be, you
understand. In any situation--be that what it may. So, Fielitz, you give
me some information! I'll put the same question to you first: Have any
valuables been destroyed?
FIELITZ
[_He is only partially successful in restraining the convulsive sobs that
attack him while he speaks._] Yes. Six bills ... banknotes!
WEHRHAHN