M. Labori.--“M. Bertillon has just told us that he has no confidence in
expert testimony in the matter of handwriting. Surely the witness must
be able to explain to us how the document of which he speaks can have
such importance in his mind. I will ask him, then, to point out in his
little plan the spot where this document is to be found. I will ask M.
Bertillon where we must look for the document from the blotting-pad.
Where is it? In the arsenal, in the citadel, at the butts, or in the
trench?”
M. Bertillon.--“It seems to me that this matter is too serious for
joking.”
M. Clemenceau.--“What! you think that the reading of your paper
constitutes a joke?”
M. Labori.--“I simply ask where this document is to be placed in this
plan.”