M. Labori.—“Will you permit me, Monsieur le Président, in our common interest, to ask you, then, what practical means you see by which we may ascertain the truth?”
The Judge.—“That does not concern me.”
M. Labori then made a formal motion that, whereas the matters upon which the testimony of Mme. Dreyfus was required bore directly upon the matters expressly set out in the complaint, and especially upon the illegality charged, and whereas the defendants maintained, in spite of the court’s decree, the right to prove their good faith, and whereas the refusal to hear the witnesses summoned would constitute the highest violation of the defendants’ rights, the court order the following questions to be put to Mme. Dreyfus:
(1) What do you think of M. Zola’s good faith?
(2) What are the reasons that have led you to believe in his good faith?
(3) Do you consider from what you know that the measures taken against your husband were legal or illegal?
(4) Will you describe the first visit of Major du Paty de Clam at your house? Who were present?
(5) Did not M. du Paty de Clam utter the grossest insults against your husband?
(6) Did he not pretend to demonstrate his guilt geometrically and by drawing concentric circles?
(7) Did he not speak of the Iron Mask?