's; he is
a friend who would give his life for him.

WER.
Yes; and that is a friend of the Major's--that is a friend... whose
life the Major ought to take
(Pointing to the Landlord).

LAND.
How! What! No, Herr Werner, that is not a good joke. I no friend to
the Major! I don't understand that joke.

WER.
Just has told me pretty things.

LAND.
Just! Ah! I thought Just was speaking through you. Just is a nasty,
ill-natured man. But here on the spot stands a pretty maid--she can
speak, she can say if I am no friend of the Major's--if I have not
done him good service. And why should not I be his friend? Is not he a
deserving man? It is true, he has had the misfortune to be discharged;
but what of that? The king cannot be acquainted with all deserving
officers; and if he knew them, he could not reward them all.

WER.
Heaven put those words into your mouth. But Just... certainly there
is nothing remarkable about Just, but still Just is no liar; and if
that what he has told me be true!!!!!

LAND.
I don't want to hear anything about Just. As I said, this pretty maid
here can speak.
(Whispering to her.)
You know, my dear; the ring! Tell Herr Werner about it. Then he will
learn better what I am. And that it may not appear as if she only said
what I wish, I will not even be present. I will go; but you shall tell
me after, Herr Werner, you shall tell me, whether Just is not a foul
slanderer.
(Exit.)

SCENE V.
Werner, Franziska

WER.
Little woman, do you know my Major?

FRAN.
Major von Tellheim? Yes, indeed, I do know that good man.

WER.
Is he not a good man? Do you like him?

FRAN.
From the bottom of my heart.

WER.
Indeed! I tell you what, little woman, you are twice as pretty now as
you were before. But what are the services, which the landlord says he
has rendered our Major?

FRAN.
That is what I don't know; unless he wished to take credit to himself
for the good result which fortunately has arisen from his knavish
conduct.

WER.
Then what Just told me is true?
(Towards the side where the Landlord went off.)
A lucky thing for you that you are gone! He did really turn him out of
his room?--To treat such a man so, because the donkey fancied that he
had no more money! The Major no money!

FRAN.
What! Has the Major any money?

WER.
By the load. He doesn't know how much he