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THE ROBBERS.

Spiegelberg.

So much the worse.

Enter Grimm, running in.

Razman.

What now? Who's there? Are there any travellers in the forest?

Grimm.

Quick! Quick! Where are the rest? Zounds! do you stand chattering there?—Don't you know—poor Roller?

Razman.

What now? What of him?

Grimm.

He's hang'd, that's all,—he and four more.

Razman.

Roller? What?—When?—Where did you hear it?

Grimm.

We heard nothing of him for three weeks.—He was all that time in jail, and we knew nothing of it:—He was three times put to the rack, to make him discover his captain:—The brave fellow never squeak'd.—Yesterday he got his sen-

tence,

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