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_] Eh, wait, you ... you...!
LOTH
What happened to your leg?
BEIPST
My leg?
LOTH
Yes.
BEIPST
Eh? Somethin' got into it.
LOTH
Do you suffer pain?
BEIPST
[_Grasping his leg._] There's a tugging pain in it, a confounded pain.
LOTH
Do you see a doctor about it?
BEIPST
Doctors? Eh, you know, they're all monkeys--one like another. Only our
doctor here--he's a mighty good man.
LOTH
And did he help you?
BEIPST
A little, maybe, when all's said. He kneaded my leg, you see, he squeezed
it, an' he punched it. But no,'t'ain't on that account. He is ... well, I
tell you, he's got compassion on a human bein', that's it. He buys the
medicine an' asks nothin'. An' he'll come to you any time ...
LOTH
Still, you must have come by that trouble somehow. Or did you always
limp?
BEIPST
Not a bit of it!
LOTH
Then I don't think I quite understand. There must have been some cause
...
BEIPST
How do I know? [_Once more he raises a menacing fist._] You jus' wait,
you--with your rattling!
KAHL
[_Appears within his own garden. In his right hand he carries a rifle by
the barrel, his left hand is closed. He calls across.


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