Nothing that need wake your fear.
I only wish to free your eyes again.

THE PRINCE. Has my ordeal's final hour struck?

STRANZ (_as he draws the bandage from the_ PRINCE's _eyes_).
Indeed! Be blest, for well you merit it!

[_The_ ELECTOR _gives the wreath, from which the chain is hanging, to
the_ PRINCESS, _takes her hand and leads her down from the terrace.
Ladies and gentlemen follow. Surrounded by torches, the_ PRINCESS
_approaches the_ PRINCE, _who looks up in amazement; sets the wreath
on his head, the chain about his neck and presses his hand to her
breast. The_ PRINCE _tumbles in a faint_.]

NATALIE. Heaven! The joy has killed him!

HOHENZOLLERN (_raising him_). Help, bring help!

ELECTOR. Let him be wakened by the cannons' thunder!

[_Artillery fire. A march. The Castle is illuminated._]

KOTTWITZ. Hail, hail, the Prince of Homburg!

OFFICERS. Hail, hail, hail!

ALL. The victor of the field of Fehrbellin!

[_Momentary silence._]

THE PRINCE. No! Say! Is it a dream?

KOTTWITZ. A dream, what else?

SEVERAL OFFICERS. To arms! to arms!

TRUCHSZ. To war!

DOeRFLING. To victory!

ALL. In dust with all the foes of Brandenburg!

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 1: Permission Porter & Coates, Philadelphia.]

[Footnote 2: Permission Porter & Coates, Philadelphia.]

[Footnote 3: Ten o'clock.]

[Footnote 4: Of Jupiter Tonans.]

[Footnote 5: The body in the Pantheon, the head in Saint Luke's
church.]

[Footnote 6: Strassburg.]

[Footnote 7: The hall of the Pantheon seems too low, because a part of
its steps is hidden by the rubbish.]

[Footnote 8: This opening in the roof is twenty-seven feet in
diameter.]

[Footnote 9: The Pole-star, as well as other northern constellations,
stands lower in the south.]

[Footnote 10: The German texts read: _Reben_, vines. But the
conjecture _Raben_ as the correct reading may be permitted.--ED.]

[Footnote 11: Permission The Macmillan Co., New York, and G. Bell &
Sons, Ltd., London.]

[Footnote 12: This appropriate expression was, if we mistake not,
first used by M. Adam Mueller in his _Lectures on German Science and
Literature_. If, however, he gives himself out as the inventor of the
thing itself, he is, to use the softest word, in error. Long before
him other Germans had endeavored to