Kroll.

I wanted to try once more to stop you and win you back to us.

Rosmer.

[Points to the newspaper.] After what appears in that paper?

Kroll.

I did not write it.

Rosmer.

Did you make the slightest effort to prevent its appearance?

Kroll.

That would have been to betray the cause I serve. And, besides, it was not in my power.