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Pardon, if you are the lady of the house

Is it Count Sture ye seek?

The same.

Then you are on the right track. The Count has sought refuge with me.

Refuge? Pardon, my noble lady,—you have no power to harbour him; for

That the Count himself has doubtless understood; and therefore he has—ay, look for yourselves—therefore he has taken his own life.

His own life!

Look for yourselves, I say. You will find the corpse within there. And since he already stands before another judge, it is my prayer that he may be borne hence with all the honour that beseems his noble birth.—Biörn, you know my own coffin has stood ready this many a year