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HERMES Very well. But what is to be done now? How are we to track the beasts out?
HERACLES That is up to you, Hermes; you are a crier, so be quick and do your office.
HERMES Nothing hard about that, but I do not know their names. Tell me, Philosophy, what I am to call them, and their marks of identification as well.
PHILOSOPHY I myself do not know for certain what they are called, because of my not having had anything to do with them ever. But to judge from the craving for riches which they have, you will not make any mistake if you call them Richman or Richmews or Richrenown or Goodrich or Richards.
HERMES Right you are.—But who are these people and why are they too looking about them? However, they are coming up and want to ask a question.
HUSBAND Could you tell us, gentlemen, or you, kind lady, whether you have seen three rogues together, and a woman with her hair closely clipped in the Spartan style, boyish-looking and quite masculine?
PHILOSOPHY Aha! They are looking for our quarry!
HUSBAND How yours? Those fellows are all fugitive slaves, and for my part I am particularly in search of the woman, whom they have kidnapped.
