.. We did our
part honestly. We was on the spot with the engine.
WEHRHAHN
Then get a better engine!
LANGHEINRICH
But if you can't get no water!
WEHRHAHN
You managed to get plenty of beer.
LANGHEINRICH
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EDE
Puttin' out a fire makes you thirsty!
WEHRHAHN
That seems undoubtedly to have been the case.--Glasenapp, will you come
and look? Something flew into my eye. [_GLASENAPP jumps up and
investigates._] I had just examined Mrs. Schulze when the north gable
caved in. It must have been a spark or something like that.--By the way,
hasn't Mrs. Schulze been here?
MRS. SCHULZE
Here I is.
GLASENAPP
Yes, Baron.
_WEHRHAHN motions him away. GLASENAPP steps back and goes over to his
table._
WEHRHAHN
To proceed, then. It has come to my ears ... Mrs. Schulze has informed
me, that a certain incident took place in front of your smithy.--It seems
that you saw that worthless boy immediately before the flame rose and
that he had a box of matches. How is it now with this story of the
matches? Tell us what you know!
LANGHEINRICH
He had a box o' matches. That's so.
WEHRHAHN
And he let it fall.
EDE
An' I picked it up.
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