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THE MAKROPOULOS SECRET

You see, Madam, this is called justice.

But why didn’t Gregor get it?

Well, dear lady, for various technical reasons and chiefly because neither Gregor Mach nor Ferdinand Karel Gregor was a blood relation of the deceased.

But wait. He was his son.

Whose son?

Ferdinand Gregor was Pepi’s son.

[Jumping up]

His son! How do you know that?

[Coming hastily down the ladder]

His son? And who was the mother, please?

The mother was—her name was Ellian MacGregor, a singer at the Viennese court opera.

[Excitedly]

What did you say her name was?