You and he acted together in that affair of the forests——
Werle.
But was it not Ekdal that drew the map of the tracts we had bought—that fraudulent map! It was he who felled all that timber illegally on Government ground. In fact, the whole management was in his hands. I was quite in the dark as to what Lieutenant Ekdal was doing.
Gregers.
Lieutenant Ekdal himself seems to have been very much in the dark as to what he was doing.
Werle.
That may be. But the fact remains that he was found guilty and I acquitted.
Gregers.
Yes, I know that nothing was proved against you.
Werle.