Can't be done! I can't allow that, your honour. My Gustav ain't no criminal! I lived along reel quiet all to myself an' now I got into this here conspiracy. There's got to be proofs first of all! [_To LANGHEINRICH._] Could it ha' been he, d'you think? [_LANGHEINRICH shrugs his shoulders._] Them's all a crowd o' thieves around here--that's what ... Gustav, don't you cry! They can't, in God's name--they can't do nothin' to you ... WEHRHAHN Hands off! Or ... Hands off! RAUCHHAUPT Your honour, I'll take my oath o' office, that's what I'll take, that my boy here is innercent! WEHRHAHN _Tempi passati_. You're getting yourself into trouble. For the last time: Hands off! RAUCHHAUPT Then I'd rather kill him right here on the spot, your honour! WEHRHAHN [_Steps between and separates RAUCHHAUPT from his son._] Move' on! You're not to touch the boy! If you dare the constable will draw his sabre! RAUCHHAUPT [_White as chalk, half maddened with excitement, has loosened his hold on GUSTAV and plants himself in front of the main door._] Don't do that to me, your honour, for God's sake, for Christ's sake--don't! That's a point o' honour with me--a point o' honour! Anythin' exceptin' that! I'll go instead. I c'n furnish bail. I'll run an' get bail. I c'n get back here right away! Eh? C'n I? Or can't that be done now? WEHRHAHN Stuff and nonsense. Move out of the way! RAUCHHAUPT I knows who it was that did it! _WEHRHAHN thrusts RAUCHHAUPT aside and the two officers conduct GUSTAV out. DR. BOXER and LANGHEINRICH support and restrain RAUCHHAUPT at the same time. He falls into a state of dull collapse. Silence ensues. Without saying a word WEHRHAHN returns to his table, blows his nose, glances swiftly at RAUCHHAUPT and MRS. FIELITZ and sits down._ WEHRHAHN Let us have some light, Glasenapp. _GLASENAPP lights a lamp on the table._ MRS. FIELITZ No, no, I tell you; it's bad, bad! A man like that! He goes an' accuses everybody in the whole place. WEHRHAHN You! Mrs. Schulze! You can go your ways! _MRS. SCHULZE withdraws rapidly._ MRS. FIELITZ I'd like to ax your honour ... we don't even know where we're goin' to sleep to-night. WEHRHAHN Are you asleep now, Fielitz? FIELITZ [_Frightened from the contemplation of his clock._] Not me, your honour! WEHRHAHN I thought you were because your head drooped so. FIELITZ [_With childish bashfulness._] I was just lookin' at the hands. WEHRHAHN [_To MRS. FIELITZ._] You want to go? MRS. FIELITZ If it's maybe possible ... I can't hardly stand on them two legs o' mine no more. WEHRHAHN I believe that. When did you get up this morning? MRS. FIELITZ -- -- --? FIELITZ We both got up around eight o'clock. WEHRHAHN Do you always get up so late? MRS. FIELITZ Sure not! That there man is confused to-day in his mind. We got up at five. We always get up at five! WEHRHAHN