Is that so? Dr. Fleischer is assisting him. I take it for granted then that they're pretty thick together?
MOTES
Inseparable in every sense, your honour.
WEHRHAHN
Aha! As far as Fleischer is concerned—he interests me most of all. Take a seat, please. I confess that I didn't sleep more than half the night. This matter simply wouldn't let me sleep. The letter that you wrote me excited me to an extraordinary degree.—That is a matter of temperament, to be sure. The slumbers of my predecessor would scarcely have been disturbed.—As far as I am concerned I have made up my mind, so to speak, to go the whole way.—It is my function here to make careful tests and to exterminate undesirable elements.—Under the protection of my honourable predecessor the sphere of our activity has become a receptacle for refuse of various kinds: lives that cannot bear the light—outlawed individuals, enemies of royalty and of the realm. These people must be made to suffer.—As for yourself, Mr. Motes, you are an author?
MOTES
I write on subjects connected with forestry and game.
WEHRHAHN
In the appropriate technical journals, I take it. A propos: do you manage to make a living that way?