"You may need your strength and your nerve.
And--try to think of anything but what you've just seen.
Remember, he was an outlaw, a murderer, the man who wrecked your brother's honorable life, a thorough-paced blackguard, a man who merits no one's pity.

More than that, he was one of Germany's cleverest spies, during the war.

His life was forfeit, then, for the injury he did his country.

I am not heartless in speaking this way of a man who is dead.

I do it, so that you may not feel the horror of his killing as you would if a decent man had died, like that.