No More Learning

_ Look at _him_, Count, and then _hear me_.

_Sieg. _ (_first to_ GABOR, _and then looking at_ ULRIC).
I hear thee.
My God! you look----

_Ulr. _ How?

_Sieg. _ As on that dread night,
When we met in the garden.

_Ulr. _ (_composing himself_). It is nothing.

_Gab. _ Count, you are bound to hear me. I came hither
Not seeking you, but sought.
When I knelt down
Amidst the people in the church, I dreamed not
To find the beggared Werner in the seat
Of Senators and Princes; but you have called me, 190
And we have met.

_Sieg. _ Go on, sir.

_Gab. _ Ere I do so,
Allow me to inquire, who profited
By Stralenheim's death? Was't I--as poor as ever;
And poorer by suspicion on my name!
The Baron lost in that last outrage neither
Jewels nor gold; his life alone was sought. --
A life which stood between the claims of others
To honours and estates scarce less than princely.

_Sieg. _ These hints, as vague as vain, attach no less
To me than to my son.

_Gab. _ I can't help that. 200
But let the consequence alight on him
Who feels himself the guilty one amongst us.
I speak to you, Count Siegendorf, because
I know you innocent, and deem you just.
But ere I can proceed--_dare_ you protect me?
_Dare_ you command me?