Papa dear! Speak, one word! [Throws herself down at his right.]

HEFFTERDINGT.

Get the doctor, Max.

MAX.

Is it a stroke?

HEFFTERDINGT.

I think so. [Exit Max. Aside to Magda.] Come to him. [As she hesitates.] Come; it is the end. [Leads her trembling to Schwartze's chair.]

MRS. SCHWARTZE.

[Who has tried to take the pistol.] Let it go, Leopold; what do you want with it? See, he's holding the pistol and won't let it go.

HEFFTERDINGT.