"One hour elapsed without M. Sauerwein reappearing. M. Vallier and M. Bourse were still with me.
"When M. Sauerwein returned, he held in his hands scraps of paper, and he said: 'That is all that remains of your letter. We tore it up, you can feel quite safe.'
"The next day, I was greatly surprised to see in the Matin the facsimile of the letter which you show me.
"I realised that M. Sauerwein had had the letter photographed during the hour that he was away.
"In the morning, I went to the Matin offices, where, protesting against such methods, I made a great scene.
"M. Sauerwein, and then M. Bourse, tried to calm me.
"Previously M. Sauerwein had promised to publish my 'Mémoirs' in the Matin, and I was to be paid £200 for them; but during the scene at the Matin offices, on Wednesday January 20th, I demanded that the manuscript of my memoirs should be handed back to me, and, after raising some objections, M. Sauerwein returned the manuscript to me.
"Besides, I sent you by an express letter (pneumatique), dated January 21st, a denial of the articles published in the Matin about me."
Question. "Since we received the pneumatique, the Matin in its issue of January 22nd, has published another letter from you, still bearing the date of January 19th, 1909, and in its issue of this very day, the same newspaper speaks of persons who exercise a certain pressure on you. Give us some explanation about this."
Answer. "During the evening of January 19th, at the Matin offices, M. Sauerwein and M. Bourse, in the presence of M. Vallier, made me write (still under the pretext of putting themselves right with their Director, M. Bunau-Varilla)—besides the letter published the next morning in facsimile—two other letters: