He looks very much like a bishop. EDE Right enough! That's what he is--Bishop Schmarowski.--You c'n knock! The old woman's out and she took her cobbler with her. There won't be nothin' to get there to-day.--You see, Doctor, when that fellow goes there he wants money. If he weren't hard up he wouldn't come. DR. BOXER The Fielitzes went in to Berlin to-day; I met them this morning at the railway station. Tell me: _he_ isn't quite right in his mind, is he? EDE How so? That wasn't never noticed. He's a pretty keen fellow ... No, I couldn't say that _he's_ crazy. DR. BOXER He talked a mixture of idiotic nonsense and looked away from me while he was talking. The fellow looked like an evil conscience personified. But I don't suppose he has a conscience. EDE By the way: that time they came down on you an' made a search in your house--that fellow Fielitz had his hand in it. He helped get you into that pickle. [_MRS. SCHULZE puts her head out at the attic window._ MRS. SCHULZE Ede! EDE What? MRS. SCHULZE Ain't Mr. Langheinrich back yet? EDE Well, o' course he is, naturally. [_MRS. SCHULZE disappears and EDE withdraws under the shed._] Quick! Take this hammer, will you, Doctor, an' hammer away a bit. If you kept up your strength the way you have, you ain't forgot about that neither. DR. BOXER I went at locksmith's work like the deuce when there was nothing to do on board ship. That gave me a very good chance. EDE You're a doctor an' you're a smith an' ... I guess you're a sausage maker too! DR. BOXER I even made sausages once. EDE Nobody didn't want to eat them, I guess. DR. BOXER I wouldn't have advised any one to do so either. The sausages were mainly filled with arsenic. The rats scarcely left us space to turn around in. EDE [_About to set to work._] Ugh! That wouldn't be no kind o' sausage for me. Come now, Doctor, go at it! We wants the missis to think that two people is workin' here or she'll never stop axin' questions. DR. BOXER Where did Langheinrich go so early? EDE That's a secret all right--the kind o' secret that all the sparrows on the gutters is chirpin'.--Doctor, roll that wheel over here, will you? You got a chance now to deserve well, as they says, o' the Prussian state, 'cause this here waggon belongs to the government forester.--That sort o' thing can't do you no harm. DR. BOXER No. And anyhow I ought to stand in with people. [_He rolls the wheel slowly along; it escapes him and glides backwards._ EDE That ain't so easy. Them people has long memories. [_He catches the wheel._] Hold on there! No goin' backward! I'm for progress, I am, Doctor! I'm willin' to fight for that! DR. BOXER But you must be careful of your fingers. [_He puts on a leathern apron._] Is Langheinrich going to be gone long? EDE [_Whistles._] That depends on how hard it is! DR. BOXER Why do you whistle so significantly? EDE