NEIGHBOUR. No, that isn't what I have heard. My father told me that this had been a place of execution, and that the gallows used to stand where the mausoleum is now.
JUDGE. Oh, how dreadful! Why did you tell me?
NEIGHBOUR. Because you asked, of course.—And the last man to be hanged on this spot was an unrighteous judge. And now he lies buried here, together with many others, among them being also an innocent victim of his iniquity.
JUDGE. What kind of stories are those! [He calls out] Caroline!
NEIGHBOUR. And that's why his ghost has to come back here. Have you never seen him, Judge?
JUDGE. I have never seen anything at all!
NEIGHBOUR. But I have seen him. As a rule, he appears at the time when the grapes are harvested, and then they hear him around the wine-press down in the cellar.
JUDGE. [Calling out] Caroline!
OLD LADY. What is it?
JUDGE. Come here!