examine her.

"What was the object of your visit to Paris?" he asks.

"To kill Marat."

"What motives induced you to this horrible deed?"

"His many crimes."

"Of what crimes do you accuse him?"

"That he instigated the massacre of September; that he kept alive
the fires of civil war, so that he might be elected dictator;
that he sought to infringe upon the sovereignty of the People by
causing the arrest and imprisonment of the deputies to the
Convention on May 31st."

"What proof have you of this?"

"The future will afford the proof. Marat hid his designs behind a
mask of patriotism."

Montane shifted the ground of his interrogatory.

"Who were your accomplices in this atrocious act?"

"I have none."

Montane shook his head. "You cannot convince anyone that a person