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THE MAKROPOULOS SECRET

Well, go then, until I ring. Go. [''Chambermaid goes out. After a pause''] Well, what?

[Quietly, but with great feeling]

Janek shot himself.

[Apparently not in the least moved]

Go on.

He’s dead. His head—shattered beyond recognition.

Poor boy. Who told you?

The servant. Janek—wrote this. They found it by his side—here, blood

What does he say?

I’m afraid to open it. How—how—how could he have known that I was with you? Why did he send it here? Do you think that—

That he saw you?

Why did he do it? Why—kill himself?