To all eternity! [Triumphantly.] Perpetuum mobile!

Duke Skule.

By your soul’s salvation,—where is Trond the Priest’s letter?

Bishop Nicholas.

[Calls.] Seven more masses, Viliam!

Duke Skule.

[Beside himself.] The letter! The letter!

Bishop Nicholas.

[Smiling in his death-agony.] ’Twas it you burned, good Duke!

[Falls back on the couch and dies.