st away this instant.

_Wer._ No!
I'll face it. Who shall dare suspect me?

_Ulr._ Yet
You had _no_ guests--_no_ visitors--no life
Breathing around you, save my mother's?

_Wer._ Ah!
The Hungarian?

_Ulr._ He is gone! he disappeared
Ere sunset.

_Wer._ No; I hid him in that very
Concealed and fatal gallery.

_Ulr._ _There_ I'll find him.
[ULRIC _is going_.

_Wer._ It is too late: he had left the palace ere
I quitted it. I found the secret panel 70
Open, and the doors which lead from that hall
Which masks it: I but thought he had snatched the silent
And favourable moment to escape
The myrmidons of Idenstein, who were
Dogging him yester-even.

_Ulr._ You reclosed
The panel?

_Wer._ Yes; and not without reproach
(And inner trembling for the avoided peril)
At his dull heedlessness, in leaving thus
His shelterer's asylum to the risk
Of a discovery.

_Ulr._ You are sure you closed it? 80

_Wer._ Certain.

_Ulr._ That's well; but had been better, if
You ne'er had turned it to a den for---- [_He pauses_.

_Wer._ Thieves!
Thou wouldst say: I must bear it, and deserve it;
But not----

_Ulr._ No, father; do not speak of this:
This is no hour to think of petty crimes,
But to prevent the consequence of great ones.
Why would you shelter this man?

_Wer._ Could I shun it?
A man pursued by my chief foe; disgraced
For my own crime: a victim to _my_ safety,
Imploring a few hours' concealment from 90
The very wretch who was the cause he needed
Such refuge. Had he been a wolf, I could not
Have in such circumstances thrust him forth.

_Ulr._ And like the wolf he hath repaid you. But
It is too late to ponder thus:--you must
Set out ere dawn. I will remain here to
Trace the murderer, if 'tis possible.

_Wer._ But this my sudden flight will give the Moloch
Suspicion: two new victims in the lieu
Of one, if I remain. The fled Hungarian,