So I bore false witness against him, and, you fools, you believed me and ordered me to shoot him who is innocent before God and man.

Then things went wrong.

The woman tricked me again--for the last time.

She dressed herself as the man, and in the dawnlight I was deceived.

I killed her, her whom I love alone, and now her father, who loved her also, has killed me." By this time I understood all, for my drugged brain had awakened at last.