Get on with you, you cutpurse.
[_All move on_.
SUPERINTENDENT.--Now attend, Suchaka; keep you guard here at the gate;
and hark ye, sirrahs, take good care your prisoner does not escape,
while I go in and lay the whole story of the discovery of this ring
before the King in person. I will soon return and let you know his
commands.
CONSTABLE.--Go in, master, by all means; and may you find favor in the
King's sight!
[_Exit Superintendent_.
FIRST CONSTABLE [_after an interval_].--I say, Januka, the
Superintendent is a long time away.
SECOND CONSTABLE.--Aye, aye; kings are not to be got at so easily. Folks
must bide the proper opportunity.
FIRST CONSTABLE.--Januka, my fingers itch to strike the first blow at
this royal victim here. We must kill him with all the honors, you know.
I long to begin binding the flowers round his head.
[_Pretends to strike a blow at the fisherman_.
FISHERMAN.--Your honor surely will not put an innocent man to a cruel
death.
SECOND CONSTABLE [_looking_].--There's our Superintendent at last, I
declare.
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