They put me under chloroform." "Who ?" "People who said they were my friends." I turned to the woman in the religious habit, and cried-- "Do you see what she has written?
She has been maimed by some friends who intended that the secret she holds should be kept.

They feared to kill her, so they bribed a doctor to deliberately operate upon her so that she could neither speak nor hear.

And now they are driving her to suicide!" "M'sieur, I am astounded!" declared the nun.

"I have always believed that she was not in her right mind, yet assuredly she seems to be as sane as I am, only willfully mutilated by some pretended friend who determined that no further word should pass her lips." "A shameful mutilation has been committed upon this poor defenseless girl!" I cried in anger.

"And I will make it my duty to discover and punish the perpetrators of it." "Ah, m'sieur.