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But you give us no orders, Van Maurice? You are his nearest kinsman: it belongs to you to act on this unhappy occasion.

Yes, true; something should be done. Let the body be removed to his house, and try if it can possibly be recovered.

That has been done already, and it is as dead as the corpse of your grandfather. Are these all the orders you have to give? Sha'n't we send an armed party through the country to track out the murderer?

We need not track him far. (Holding up the dagger.) Here is his mark: and, Baron Van Maurice, I arrest thee in the name of the state. (Laying hold of him.)

Lay no hands on me, or ye may dearly answer for such an outrage. I am most innocent of the