_Jos._ Not so:
You are the latest stranger, and command
All places here.
(_Aside to_ ULRIC, _as she goes out_.) O Ulric! have a care--
Remember what depends on a rash word!

_Ulr._ (_to_ JOSEPHINE). Fear not!--
[_Exit_ JOSEPHINE.

_Stral._ Ulric, I think that I may trust you; 340
You saved my life--and acts like these beget
Unbounded confidence.

_Ulr._ Say on.

_Stral._ Mysterious
And long-engendered circumstances (not
To be now fully entered on) have made
This man obnoxious--perhaps fatal to me.

_Ulr._ Who? Gabor, the Hungarian?

_Stral._ No--this "Werner"--
With the false name and habit.

_Ulr._ How can this be?
He is the poorest of the poor--and yellow
Sickness sits caverned in his hollow eye[cs]:
The man is helpless.

_Stral._ He is--'tis no matter;-- 350
But if he be the man I deem (and that
He is so, all around us here--and much
That is not here--confirm my apprehension)
He must be made secure ere twelve hours further.

_Ulr._ And what have I to do with this?

_Stral._ I have sent
To Frankfort, to the Governor, my friend,
(I have the authority to do so by
An order of the house of Brandenburgh),
For a fit escort--but this cursed flood
Bars all access, and may do for some hours. 360

_Ulr._ It is abating.

_Stral._ That is well.

_Ulr._ But how
Am I concerned?

_Stral._ As one who did so much
For me, you cannot be indifferent to
That which is of more import to me than
The life you rescued.--Keep your eye on _him_!
The man avoids me, knows that I now know him.--
Watch him!--as you would watch the wild boar when
He makes against you in the hunter's gap--
Like him he must be speared.

_Ulr._ Why so?

_Stral._ He stands
Between me and a brave inheritance! 370
Oh! could you see it! But you shall.

_Ulr._ I hope so.

_Stral._ It is the richest of the rich Bohemi