“They hanged John Duncan today for the murder of the unknown young man.
And I, the man who swore to save him from the gallows, could do nothing.
“I am an accomplice—an accessory after the fact. Lessman is a fiend,
and if Meta is any better it is only because she lacks his scientific
ability. I am beginning to hate them both.
“I have been tricked. I am but a dupe. My brain is steadily growing
weaker. When they have sucked me dry they will cast me aside, as they
have Collins and the others. I realize this when I am alone, but when I
am with Lessman I do his bidding gladly, happily.
“The papers are often filled with accounts of his work among the poorer
classes. They say that he gives thousands of dollars away yearly. Little
do they suspect that it is money that he has secured through crime—that
he interests himself among the poor only because he occasionally is
able to secure some new type of human brain upon whom he can work his
nefarious experiments.”