MAJ. T. Go, Madam, and may you have a prosperous journey! I do not ask you to let me hear from you. Your news might come to me when it might be of little use to me. There is yet one thing, Madam; I had nearly forgotten that which is of most consequence. Marloff also had claims upon the chest of our old regiment. His claims are as good as mine. If my demands are paid, his must be paid also. I will be answerable for them. LADY. Oh! Sir... but what can I say? Thus to purpose future good deeds is, in the eyes of heaven, to have performed them already. May you receive its reward, as well as my tears. (Exit.) SCENE VII. Major von Tellheim MAJ. T. Poor, good woman! I must not forget to destroy the bill. (Takes some papers from his pocketbook and destroys them.) Who would guarantee that my own wants might not some day tempt me to make use of it? SCENE VIII. Just, Major von Tellheim MAJ. T. Is that you, Just? JUST. (wiping his eyes). Yes. MAJ. T. You have been crying? JUST. I have been writing out my account in the kitchen, and the place is full of smoke. Here it is, sir. MAJ. T. Give it to me. JUST. Be merciful with me, sir. I know well that they have not been so with you; still!!!!! MAJ. T. What do you want? JUST. I should sooner have expected my death, than my discharge. MAJ. T. I cannot keep you any longer: I must learn to manage without servants. (Opens the paper, and reads.) "What my master, the Major, owes me:--Three months and a half wages, six thalers per month, is 21 thalers. During the first part of this month, laid out in sundries--1 thaler 7 groschen 9 pfennigs. Total, 22 thalers 7gr. 9pf." Right; and it is just that I also pay your wages, for the whole of the current month. JUST. Turn over, sir. MAJ. T. Oh! more? (Reads.) "What I owe my master, the Major:--Paid for me to the army-surgeon twenty-five thalers. Attendance and nurse during my cure, paid for me, thirty-nine thalers. Advanced, at my request, to my father--who was burnt out of his house and robbed--without reckoning the two horses of which he made him a present, fifty thalers. Total 114 thalers. Deduct the above 22 thalers, 7gr. 9pf.; I remain in debt to my master, the Major, 91 thalers, 16gr. 3pf." You are mad, my good fellow! JUST. I willingly grant that I owe you much more; but it would be wasting ink to write it down. I cannot pay you that: and if you take my livery from me too, which, by the way, I have not yet earned,--I would rather you had let me die in the workhouse. MAJ. T. For what do you take me? You owe me nothing; and I will recommend you to one of my friends, with whom you will fare better than with me. JUST. I do not owe you anything, and yet you turn me away! MAJ. T. Because I do not wish to owe you anything.