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WILLIAM TELL

Werner Stauffacher and the other man here, and you wouldn’t let me listen. What is it? Some dangerous scheme, I suppose?”

“Now, how in the world do you get those sort of ideas into your head?” Tell laughed. “Dangerous scheme! As if I should plot dangerous schemes with your papa!”

“I know,” said Hedwig. “You can’t deceive me! There is a plot afoot against the Governor, and you are in it.”

“A man must help his country.”

“They’re sure to place you where there is most danger. I know them. Don’t go. Send Walter down with a note to say that you regret that an unfortunate previous engagement, which you have just recollected, will make it impossible for you to accept their kind invitation to plot.”

“No; I must go.”

“And there is another thing,” continued