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 of them;-
 * the group of Interpreters threescore and ten;
 * it's been lately increased by a hundred and sixty-
 * [Shouts to the KEEPERS.]
 * Mikkel, Schlingelberg, Schafmann, Fuchs,-
 * into the cages with you at once!

THE KEEPERS
 * We!

BEGRIFFENFELDT
 * Who else, pray? Get in, get in!
 * When the world twirls around, we must twirl with it too.
 * [Forces them into a cage.]
 * He's arrived this morning, the mighty Peer;-
 * the rest you can guess,-I need say no more.
 * [Locks the cage door, and throws the key into a well.]

PEER
 * But, my dear Herr Doctor and Director, pray-?

BEGRIFFENFELDT Neither one nor the other! I was before-
 * Herr Peer, are you secret? I must ease my heart-

PEER [with increasing uneasiness].
 * What is it?

BEGRIFFENFELDT
 * Promise you will not tremble.

PEER
 * I will do my best, but-

BEGRIFFENFELDT [d