[While the attention of the crowd has been directed to the spot where BERTHA had cast herself between RUDENZ and GESSLER, TELL has shot.]
RÖSSEL.
The boy's alive!
MANY VOICES.
The apple has been struck!
[WALTER FÜRST staggers and is about to fall. BERTHA supports him.]
GESSLER (astonished).
How? Has he shot? The madman!
BERTHA.
Worthy father!
Pray you, compose yourself. The boy's alive.