As to you, Mr. Carruthers, I think
that you have done what you could to make amends for your share
in an evil plot. There is my card, sir, and if my evidence can
be of help to you in your trial it shall be at your disposal."
In the whirl of our incessant activity it has often been
difficult for me, as the reader has probably observed, to round
off my narratives, and to give those final details which the
curious might expect. Each case has been the prelude to
another, and the crisis once over the actors have passed for
ever out of our busy lives. I find, however, a short note at
the end of my manuscripts dealing with this case, in which
I have put it upon record that Miss Violet Smith did indeed
inherit a large fortune, and that she is now the wife of Cyril
Morton, the senior partner of Morton & Kennedy, the famous
Westminster electricians. Williamson and Woodley were both
tried for abduction and assault, the former getting seven years
and the latter ten. Of the fate of Carruthers I have no record,
but I am sure that his assault was not viewed very gravely by
the Court, since Woodley had the reputation of being a most
dangerous ruffian, and I think that a few months were sufficient
to satisfy the demands of justice.
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