He is THERE." He pointed as he spake to the broad Rhine, that was seen from the casement, lighted up by the magnificent hues of sunset.
"THERE! How mean ye THERE ?" gasped the Margrave, wrought to a pitch of nervous fury.
"Alas! my good lord, when he was in the boat which was to conduct him to the convent, he--he jumped suddenly from it, and is dr--dr--owned." "Carry that knave out and hang him!" said the Margrave, with a calmness more dreadful than any outburst of rage.

"Let every man of the boat's crew be blown from the mouth of the cannon on the tower--except the coxswain, and let him be--" What was to be done with the coxswain, no one knows; for at that moment, and overcome by his emotion, the Margrave sank down lifeless on the floor..