He looked at me, sharply.
"You do not approve of this, Dr. Lowell?"
"Ricori, I don't know-I honestly do not know. Today I would have killed her with my own hands but
now the rage is spent. What you have threatened is against all my instincts, all my habits of thought, all my
convictions of how justice should be administered. It seems to me-murder!"
He said: "You heard the girl. Twenty in this city alone killed by the dolls. And fourteen dolls. Fourteen
who died as Peters did!"
"But, Ricori, no court could consider allegations under hypnosis as evidence. It may be true, it may not
be. The girl was abnormal. What she told might be only her imaginings-without supporting evidence, no
court on earth could accept it as a basis for action."