to herself.]

[A cry for help is heard. It dies down, then comes again.]

[The noise of some one

approaching is heard.]

[Enter Eginhardt.]

[Ernst and Guta mount the steps but as they descend

the other side they pause and look round unnoticed by

Emma and Eginhardt.]

[Emma drapes the cross with the white silk.]

[Some leaves of the linden rustle slightly.]