Eynhardt?"
"Simply, that the man's statement is absolutely untrue. I never
uttered or thought words bearing the remotest resemblance to those
he quotes."
"What my friend does not say is," broke in Schrotter, "that, on the
contrary, he expressed the deepest and most painful emotion at the
crime."
The magistrate shot a venomous glance from under his spectacles at
Schrotter, but quailed before those flaming half-closed blue eyes
fixed so sternly upon him.
"Well, and what have you to bring forward against the other
gentleman?"
"That gentleman said the outrage was of no great importance."
"In your first account you said the outrage had no real
significance, and that Dr. Eynhardt made the remark."
"Whether he said 'no importance' or 'no significance,' it is all the
same thing, and one cannot so easily distinguish the speaker when
one is walking behind. I may have been mistaken on that point."
"You do not repudiate the remark?" asked the magistrate of Schrotter
in his most biting tones.
"Your expression is not very happily chosen. By repudiating I
understand the declaring of a fact to be false when we know it to be
true. I am not in the habit of doing that, nor should I suppose it
of you, Herr Staatsanwalt.
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