THE HAUNTED CASTLE
THE LORD OF THE CASTLE
THE GUESTS
"Count Oetsch!"
"You... Count Oetsch?!"
"You forgot to invite me?"
THE RETIRED COUNTY COURT JUDGE
"He is in the bad repute of having treacherously shot
to death his brother three years ago."
THE FRIGHTENED GENTLEMAN
"Yet, all those who were able to follow the trial at the time, are convinced that he is the assassin."
"I would emphasize once more that I am expecting this very night the widow of your brother as my guest!"
THE WIDOW OF THE ASSASSINATED. SHE HAS MARRIED A YEAR AGO BARON SAFFERSTÄTT.
"I would like to spare to all of us the situation...
that the Baronese will meet you here, Mylord!"
"So, you are staying! But, you will take the responsibility."
EXPECTING THE BARONESS
"They may arrive any moment, and Count Oetsch is inside..."
"So, you pretent having learned in India the art of prophecy?"
"Will you then tell us whether, considering this hunting party...
spoiled by the rain, we will be able to fire a shot at all?"
"One shot will be fired!"
"Maybe, also two?"
"Oetsch is inside!"
"You will understand that - under these circumstances - we cannot stay with you..."
"No, you cannot leave! Do you know who else will come here to see you?"
"Father Faramund from Rom!"
"Father - Faramund - from Rom?!"
"Yes, I almost had forgotten it in all this excitement! I must go at once and get you his letter."
"Father - Faramund?!"
"You do not want to show me the door?"
"She will stay! She will wait for Father Faramund!"
WEATHER REPORT
"Are you not coming hunting with us?"
"I only go hunting in rain and storm!"
"Tell me, why is your husband always so quit?"
"His Reverence, Father Faramund, has just announced his arrival for tonight."
"And this strange Oetsch really goes hunting in this beastly weather!"
"He should know why he is shunning the arrival of his relative, the Father!"
"This very night I will yet have many things to discuss with the Father!"
THE EVENING
"As the Baroness wishes so, I want to present her my compliments already tonight."
"Now our house is being blessed."
"Speak to me - dear child - speak to me!"
"How strange, Your Reverence... this encounter."
"...for all these years I have fought with the idea
to speak my mind to you, Your Reverence - the only men...
"the friend and relative of my late husband..."
"It has been four years now..."
"Our marriage was - first - like just one day of happiness."
"One day he departed..."
"Believe me, dear child. The true happiness lies only in the renunciation of everything wordly."
"I am longing for... seeing evil... wanting evil..."
"I cannot go on - not now - tomorrow..."
"Will you please excuse me for today. I will pay my reverence tomorrow to the owners of the Castle."
"Please ask His Reverence to come to see me!"
THE LORD OF THE CASTLE
"No, nobody left through here!"
"It's getting uncomfortable here, afrer all!"
"No more of this now! Tomorrow I shall travel!"
MORNING OF THE THIRD DAY
"So, you understand! Suddenly important affairs!"
"They don't feel quite at ease any more in my house."
"I have informed the Authorities because my suspicion of this Count Oetsch...!"
A HAPPY ONE
"She is so strange... doesn't say a thing, even not about the Father who disappeared?"
THE NOON
"What do you want to pretent there?"
"Ladies and Gentlemen! Why don't you let me speak out?!"
"I have been dreaming last night!"
"Count Oetsch! The present atmosphere in my house does not seem appropriate to me for that kind of jokes!"
"Believe me, my investigating eye is experienced!"
"...and yet, Count Oetsch is involved in the Father's disappearance."
"He is acting so superior, in order to conceal his new crime."
"He will have to apologize for his inopportune jokes in the presence of all guests!"
"You absolutely have to talk to him."
"You already know everything, Sir!"
"Mayby, you also know who is being suspected here of the Father's disappearance?"
"Me!"
"But, I know even more, Mr. Ex-Justice. I also know how to read secrets."
"To give you an example, I am now going to give away to our Baron one of his secrets."
"Count Oetsch! If you know other people's secrets you are not allowed to disclose them in front of everybody."
"My compliments for your opinion! I just want to whisper a few words into Baron Safferstätt's ears."
"No. I am... no assassin..."
"What about these allusions?"
"Do you perhaps want all of a sudden to accuse the Baron of the assassination of your brother?"
"Mayby?"
"I will question Baron Safferstätt."
"Today I am going to disclose it."
"He has assassinated my husband!"
"In a fight he shot my brother to death!"
"What do you know of that time - my dear - speak!"
"Mylord, the Count, prefered to run away!"
"And so I am telling you, he has the Father also on his conscience."
"Father Faramund... is back again!"
"Yesterday I was seeking comfort, and you did not come! - Today - I am going to confess you!"
"Because you, as a priest, you have to keep silence!"
"We must not do anything now! The events of these last days will now probably clear up!"
"A few days before the assassination of my husband..."
AFTER HALF AN HOUR
"I would like to see something evil - something very evil!"
"An assassination!"
"Baron Safferstätt, burning with passion for me, had terribly misunderstood me!"
"He shot my husband to death!"
"Then I also realized my guiltiness!"
"The Count was arrested! Had he been convicted..."
"But, he was not convicted!"
"Thus accursed, both of us! Tied together by our guiltiness!"
"We got married! This is our marriage!"
"So, we were two companions! And today I rescued him!"
"I accused Count Oetsch of fratricide!"
"Thus far my destiny has driven me."
"Now, you know everything! And you have to remain silent!"
"I understand... you!"
"I - was - not - happy..."
"A shot?"
EVENING PEACE
"His struggles are over!"
"I, who innocently outlawed, had always guessed..."
"So, any way had to be right for me, in order to finally clear myself from this ignominious suspicion!"
"Therefore, I arrived before Father Faramund who was expected in the Castle!"
"We have to beg your pardon for so many things!"
THE EVENING
"I am Father Faramund from Rome."
THE END