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 Bernick.

And in two months you will be here again?

Johan.

I hope so. The wind is fair. In three weeks I shall be in New York—if the Indian Girl doesn't go to the bottom.

Bernick.

[Starting.] Go to the bottom? Why should the Indian Girl go to the bottom?

Johan.

That's just what I say.

Bernick.

[Almost inaudibly.] Go to the bottom?

Johan.

Well, Bernick, now you know what you have to expect; you must do what you can in the mean-*time. Good-bye! Give my love to Betty, though she certainly has not received me in a very sisterly fashion. But Martha I must see. She must tell Dina—she must promise me

[He goes out by the second door on the left.

Bernick.

[To himself.] The Indian Girl? [Quickly.] Lona, you must prevent this!

Lona.

You see yourself, Karsten—I have lost all power over him.

[She follows Johan into the room on the left.

Bernick.

[In unquiet thought.] Go to the bottom?