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Rh  [With intense significance.] Yes. Choose—which is it to be?

 Oh! Oh! Oh!

[ who has not moved during the foregoing scene, now steps to side.

 [In a low, quivering voice.] Margaret, there is something you have forgotten—this man Temple killed our father——

 Otto!

 Killed him by a false charge, a false trial, and a false imprisonment.

 [Hesitating.] But, Otto——

 [With a wild look of exultation.] Therefore he deserves his death. It will not be crime, but justice.

 Otto, I must confess——

 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.