The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume Ii Part 124
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D'you want me to go an' earn the thousand crowns' reward what's offered accordin' to placards on the news pillars by the chief o' police's office for denouncin' the criminal?
MRS. JOHN
How's that?
JOHN
Don't you know that all this manoeuverin' o' police an' detectives is started on account o' Bruno?
MRS. JOHN
How so? Where? What is it? What's been started?
JOHN
The funeral's been stopped an' two o' the mourners--queer customers they is, too--has been taken prisoner. Yes, sir! That's the pa.s.s things has come to, Mr. Ha.s.senreuter. I'm a man, sir, what's tied to a women as has a brother what's bein' pursued by the criminal police an' by detectives because he killed a woman not far from the river under a lilac bush.
Ha.s.sENREUTER
But my dear Mr. John: G.o.d forbid that that be true!
MRS. JOHN
That's a lie! My brother don' do nothin' like that.
JOHN
Aw, don' he though, Jette? Mr. Ha.s.senreuter, I was sayin' the other day what kind of a brother that is! [_He notices the bunch of lilacs and takes it from the table._] Look at this here! That there monster's been in my home! If he comes back I'll be the first one that'll take him, bound hand an' foot, an' deliver him up to justice!
[_He searches through the whole room._
MRS. JOHN
You c'n tell dam' fools there's such a thing as justice. There ain't no justice, not even in heaven. There wasn't a soul here. An' that bit o'
lilac I brought along from Hangelsberg where a big bush of it grows behind your sister's house.
JOHN
Jette, you wasn't at my sister's at all. Quaquaro jus' told me that! They proved that at headquarters. You was seen in the park by the river ...
MRS. JOHN
Lies!
JOHN
An' 'way out in the suburbs where you pa.s.sed the night in a arbour!
MRS. JOHN
What? D'you come into your own house to tear everythin' into bits?
JOHN
All right! I ain't sorry that things has come to this. There ain't no more secrets between us here. I foretold all that.
Ha.s.sENREUTER
[_Tense with interest._] Did that Polish girl who fought like a lioness for Mrs. k.n.o.bbe's baby the other day ever show herself again?
JOHN
She's the very one. She's the one what they pulled out o' the water this morning. An' I has to say it without bitin' my tongue off: Bruno Mechelke took that girl's life.
Ha.s.sENREUTER
[_Quickly._] Then she was probably his mistress?
JOHN
Ask mother! I don' know about that! That's what I was scared of; that's the reason I rather didn't come home at all no more, that my own wife was loaded down with a crowd like that an' didn't have the strength to shake it off.
Ha.s.sENREUTER
Come, children!
JOHN
Why so? You jus' stay!
MRS. JOHN
You don' has to go an' open the windows an' cry out everythin' for all the world to hear! It's bad enough if fate's brought a misfortune like that on us. Go on! Make a noise about it if you want to. But you won't see me very soon again.
Ha.s.sENREUTER
And you mean to say that that ...
JOHN
That's jus' what I'll do! Jus' that! I'll call in anybody as wants to know--outa the street, offa the hall, the carpenter outa the yard, the boys an' the girls what takes their confirmation lessons--I'll call 'em all an' I'll tell 'em what a woman got into on account o' her fool love for her brother!
Ha.s.sENREUTER
And so that good-looking girl who laid claim to the child is actually dead to-day?
JOHN
Maybe she was good-lookin'. I don' know nothin' about that, whether she was pretty or ugly. But it's a fac' that she's lyin' in the morgue this day.
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