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] With this spear will I slay the beast with seven heads, and then I shall get back my soul again. Christ himself has promised me that. He was with me to-night.

Hunger and weariness have turned his brain.

To the camp with him; there he can sleep his weariness away.

Let me go! Oh, if you but knew what spear this is!

[The soldiers lead him off by the front, to the right.

What could he mean by that beast?

That is one of the Galilean secrets. They have many such secrets among them.

[ and enter hastily from the right, looking anxiously about.

Do you not see him?

No.—Ah, soldiers!—Tell me, good friends, has any one passed by here?

Yes, a detachment of spearmen.