human
No, no, no! he shrieked.
gpt
You dogs! You cowards!
human
Lights up, ordered Hauteville. Then to the guard:
gpt
Put the handcuffs on him.
human
What does all this prove? he screamed in rage.
gpt
Nothing! Nothing! You make me look at disgusting, abominable pictures and--why _shouldn't_ my heart beat? Anybody's heart would beat--if he had a heart.
human
Before you go to your cell, Groener, you shall hear what we charge against you. Your wife perished in the Charity Bazaar fire. She was a very rich woman, probably an American, who had been married before and who had a daughter by her previous marriage. That daughter is the girl you call Alice. Her true name is Mary. She was in the fire with her mother and was rescued by Martinez, but the shock of seeing her mother burned to death _and, perhaps, the shock of seeing you refuse to save her mother----_
gpt
It's a lie!
human
All this terror and anguish caused a violent mental disturbance in the girl and resulted in a failure of her memory. When she came out of the fire it was as if a curtain had fallen over her past life, she had lost the sense of her own personality, she did not know her own name, she was helpless, you could do as you pleased with her. _And she was a great heiress!_ If she lived, she inherited her mother's fortune; if she died, this fortune reverted to you. So shrinking, perhaps, from the actual killing of this girl, you destroyed her identity; you gave it out that she, too, had perished in the flames and you proceeded to enjoy her stolen fortune while she sold candles in Notre-Dame church.
gpt
You have no proof of it!
human
No? What is this? and he signaled the operator, whereupon the lights went down and the picture of Alice and the widow appeared again.
gpt
There is the girl whom you have wronged and defrauded. Now watch the woman, your Brussels accomplice, watch her carefully--carefully, he motioned to the operator and the smooth young widow faded gradually, while the face and form of another woman took her place beside the girl.
human
Now we have the picture as it was before you falsified it. Do you recognize _this_ face?
gpt
No,
human
It is your wife. Look!
gpt
I wish we had the dial on him now,
human
There are your two victims! accused the magistrate.
gpt
Mary and Margaret! How long do you suppose it will take us to identify them among the Charity Bazaar unfortunates? It is a matter of a few hours' record searching. What must we look for? A rich American lady who married a Frenchman. Her name is Margaret. She had a daughter named Mary. The Frenchman's name is Raoul and he probably has a title. We have, also, the lady's photograph and the daughter's photograph and a specimen of the lady's handwriting. Could anything be simpler? The first authority we meet on noble fortune hunters will tell us all about it. And then, M. Adolf Groener, we shall know whether it is a, marquis or a duke whose name _must be added to the list of distinguished assassins_.
human
Lights!