ARMGART.
Here he cannot escape me. He must hear me.
FRIESSHARDT (coming hastily down the pass and calls upon the stage).
Make way, make way! My lord, the governor,
Is close behind me, riding down the pass.
[Exit TELL.]
ARMGART (excitedly).
The Viceroy comes!
[She goes toward the pass with her children. GESSLER and RUDOLPH DER HARRAS appear on horseback at the upper end of the pass.]
STUSSI (to FRIESSHARDT).
How got ye through the stream,
When all the bridges have been carried down?