Irony characterizes the tone in which the narrator describes the conclusions of the investigating commission. He reports that, "Again and again, due justice must be rendered the investigating commission. It had done everything possible not only to catch the criminals but also to explain everything they had done. And, indeed, everything was explained, and the explanations must be recognized as both sensible and irrefutable." It is true that the explanations must be recognized as true, but the narrator and the reader both know they are untrue.
