Well, Mrs. Fielitz, you go on home now.--I should be mighty sorry in some respects ... However, justice goes its way. Murder will out. Criminals come to a fearful end! The eternal Judge doesn't forget. And--you [_To RAUCHHAUPT._] might as well go home. Go home and wait to see how things turn out. I'll let things go this time. Your paternal feeling robbed you of your senses. RAUCHHAUPT [_Steps forward._] I should like 'umbly to report, your honour ... WEHRHAHN Go on! Go on! What else do you want? Let us have no more nonsense, my good man. RAUCHHAUPT [_Goes close up to MRS. FIELITZ._] God is my witness! I'll show you up! THE CURTAIN FALLS THE FOURTH ACT _The attic room over LANGHEINRICH'S smithy. To the left, two small, curtained windows. At one of the windows an arm-chair on which MRS. FIELITZ is sitting. She has aged perceptibly and grown thinner.--At the second window stands a sewing-machine with a chair beside it. A skirt at which some one has been working is thrown across the chair. A bodice lies on the machine itself. A door in the rear wall leads to a little sleeping-chamber immediately under the roof. To the left of this door a brown tile-oven; to its right, a yellow wardrobe. In the right wall there is likewise a door which opens upon the hall. Behind this door a neatly made bed and a yellow chest of drawers. Above this chest hangs a seven-day clock. The SHOEMAKER FIELITZ stands in his stocking feet upon the chest of drawers and winds the clock._ _In the middle of the room an extension table. A hanging lamp above it. Four yellow chairs surround the table, a fifth--of the same set stands near the bed. LANGHEINRICH and EDE, _dressed in their working-clothes, are busy at the table. LANGHEINRICH holds an iron weather-vane which EDE is painting red._ _EDE and LANGHEINRICH break out in loud laugh._ FIELITZ [_Who has been minding the clock while the others have been laughing._] Somebody's been pokin' around here again. LANGHEINRICH You c'n bet on that. I s'ppose that's what's happened. You'd better watch out more. [_Renewed laughter._ FIELITZ All I say is: let me catch some one at it! An' I won't care what happens neither! LANGHEINRICH That's right! That's the way! Don't you care who it is, neither. I think it was Leontine. MRS. FIELITZ The girl ain't been near that there clock! LANGHEINRICH Oh, oh! FIELITZ Somethin's goin' to happen some day. I don't take no jokes o' that kind. EDE You gotta save that to put it in the shop. LANGHEINRICH That's the truth! That's what I always been sayin'! That corner shop'll soon be built now, an' then maybe he won't have no clock to hang up in it. How could he go an' start a business then! FIELITZ Firebrands! Pack o' thieves! Laugh if you wants to! You can't never get the better o' me! LANGHEINRICH