My heart bled; I was beside myself; I could have torn
everybody and everything to pieces. As I walked along I noticed
these two gentlemen, who looked to me suspicious from the first--"
"Why?" asked the magistrate.
"Well--the one with his black hair, and the other with his hooked
nose--I said to myself, 'Those are Jews!'"
The magistrate suddenly bent over his papers, and gave a kind of
grunt. Even the policeman, in spite of his wooden official air,
could not repress a smile. Patke continued:
"Then I heard the younger gentleman say, 'It serves his majesty the
emperor quite right.'"
"Did he actually say, his majesty the emperor?" interrupted the
magistrate.
"No," answered Patke eagerly, "I say that."
"You are only to repeat the gentleman's actual words."
"He actually did say that it served the emperor right."
"This is beyond a joke," Schrotter burst out. "Why, man, I wonder
the lie does not stick in your throat and choke you!"
"I must beg you not to address the witness," said the magistrate
brusquely. Then to Patke severely--"That is not what you said in
your first charge."
"I was confused then; I did not recollect distinctly. But later on
it came back to me."
"That is very improbable. What have you to answer, Dr.
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