THE PRIME MINISTER
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Doctor.
[With intense significance.] Yes. Choose—which
is it to be?
Margaret.
Oh! Oh! Oh!
[Otto, who has not moved during the foregoing scene, now steps to Margaret's side.
Otto.
[In a low, quivering voice.] Margaret, there is something you have forgotten—this man Temple killed
our father——
Margaret.
Otto!
Otto.
Killed him by a false charge, a false trial, and a
false imprisonment.
Margaret.
[Hesitating.] But, Otto——
Otto.
[With a wild look of exultation.] Therefore he
deserves his death. It will not be crime, but justice.
Margaret.
Otto, I must confess——
Otto.
It is for us to do it, too—his children. Fate has
put it into our power to avenge our father's death,
and we must avenge it.
