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ACT II.]
LADY INGER OF ÖSTRAT.
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Nils Lykke.

[Softly.] No one?

Finn.

[In the same tone.] No one, master!

Nils Lykke.

And we may depend on you in all things?

Finn.

The commandant in Trondhiem has ever given me a name for trustiness.

Nils Lykke.

'Tis well; he has said as much to me. First of all, then—has there come any stranger to Östråt to-night, before us?

Finn.

Ay; a stranger came an hour since.

Nils Lykke.

[Softly, to Jens Bielke.] He is here. [Turns again to Finn.] Would you know him again? Have you seen him?

Finn.

Nay, none has seen him, that I know, but the gatekeeper. He was brought at once to Lady Inger, and she——

Nils Lykke.

Well? What of her? He is not gone again already?