"No," said the visitor and stroked his forehead, "then the man doesn’t know how his defence was carried out?"
"He had no opportunity to defend himself, " said the officer, looking aside as if he were talking to himself and didn’t want to shame the visitor by explaining such obvious things to him.
"He must however have had the opportunity to defend himself," said the visitor and got up from his chair.
The officer realised that there was a risk of interrupting his exposé of the functioning of the machine for quite a while; he went over to the visitor, took his arm, pointed with his hand to the condemned man, who now that they were directly looking at him was standing to attention – the soldier took up the chain, as well – and said: "The affair was conducted in the following manner. I am t
