COUNTESS.
They are lost!
(COUNTESS leans on FREDERICA. The KING beckons to HAROLD, who goes to him. They engage in earnest conversation, occasionally pointing to KARL. HAROLD is supposed to be informing him of the arrest of KARL in SOPHIA's cell. KARL leaves the witness-box, and is about to retire, but is stopped by HAROLD.)
ALBERT.
Call the German inn-keeper to the stand. [HANS is placed in the box.
KARL (aside.)
I tremble with apprehension!
ALBERT (to HANS.)
You deal in colors—do you not?
HANS.
Yaw, mynherr.
ALBERT.
Have you sold any in Berlin lately?
HANS. Yaw, mynheer; I sold some of der Prussian blue to der Hungarian overseer of der factory, who gave me monish to say notting about it. He tried der quality upon dis little scrap of baper, vich he forgot, and vich I kept, mit der intention of giving him back ven I saw him again. It is scrawled all over mit der word "Tyrant."
KARL (forgetting himself.)
That paper's mine—give it me!
WEDGEWOOD (instantly snatching the paper and holding it up, exclaims in a loud tone)
It's not convenient! (Hands the paper to ALBERT, who reads it to the JUDGES.)