_Iden._ None whatsoever.

_Fritz_. Are you sure of that?

_Iden._ Certain. I have lived and served here since my birth,
And if there were such, must have heard of such,
Or seen it.

_Fritz_. Then it must be some one who
Had access to the antechamber.

_Iden._ Doubtless.

_Fritz_. The man called _Werner's_ poor!

_Iden._ Poor as a miser[171].
But lodged so far off, in the other wing, 20
By which there's no communication with
The baron's chamber, that it can't be he.
Besides, I bade him "good night" in the hall,
Almost a mile off, and which only leads
To his own apartment, about the same time
When this burglarious, larcenous felony
Appears to have been committed.

_Fritz_. There's another,
The stranger----

_Iden._ The Hungarian?

_Fritz_. He who helped
To fish the baron from the Oder.

_Iden._ Not
Unlikely. But, hold--might it not have been 30
One of the suite?

_Fritz_. How? _We_, sir!

_Iden._ No--not _you_,
But some of the inferior knaves. You say
The Baron was asleep in the great chair--
The velvet chair--in his embroidered night-gown;
His toilet spread before him, and upon it
A cabinet with letters, papers, and
Several rouleaux of gold; of which _one_ only
Has disappeared:--the door unbolted, with
No difficult access to any.

_Fritz_. Good sir,
Be not so quick; the honour of the corps 40
Which forms the Baron's household's unimpeached
From steward to scullion, save in the fair way
Of peculation; such as in accompts,
Weights, measures, larder, cellar, buttery,
Where all men take their prey; as also in
Postage of letters, gathering of rents,
Purveying feasts, and understanding with
The honest trades who furnish noble masters[cq];
But for your petty, picking, downright thievery,
We scorn it as we do board wages. Then 50
Had one of our folks done it, he would not
Have been so poor a spirit as to hazard
His neck for _one_ rouleau, but have swooped all;
Also the cabinet, if portable.