I didn't interrupt. A man behind bars must wield power however he can."A doppelganger is a look-alike, someone who looks exactly like you in every aspect. Some theorize that each man has, somewhere in this world, his own doppelganger. I know I have mine. It was this man and not myself who was seen meeting in Washington with Sam Arnold and with John Booth. It was this man and not I who conspired to assassinate or kidnap the president."Dr. Mudd had gone as mad as I felt I was at that moment.He spoke as if he addressed a court of law and not one angry woman dressed in her husband's britches."What has this to do with my sister?" I asked and none too politely."I was getting to your sister, Mrs. Coleman. Your sister was kind enough or perspicacious enough to believe me. When I came into possession of proof of this, I felt she was the only person at this prison whom I could trust to carry this proof outside to my lawyer. Anyone else within these walls would possibly destroy it, preferring to punish an innocent man than to admit their blessed union had been duped."The document, the letter, the secret proof.
