See here, Captain Croker,
we'll do this in due form of law. You are the prisoner.
Watson, you are a British jury, and I never met a man who was
more eminently fitted to represent one. I am the judge.
Now, gentleman of the jury, you have heard the evidence.
Do you find the prisoner guilty or not guilty?"
"Not guilty, my lord," said I.
"Vox populi, vox Dei. You are acquitted, Captain Croker.
So long as the law does not find some other victim you are
safe from me. Come back to this lady in a year, and may her
future and yours justify us in the judgment which we have
pronounced this night."
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THE STRAND MAGAZINE
Vol. 28 DECEMBER, 1904
THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES.
By ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE.
XIII. --- The Adventure of the Second Stain.
I HAD intended "The Adventure of the Abbey Grange" to be the
last of those exploits of my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, which
I should ever communicate to the public. This resolution of
mine was not due to any lack of material, since I have notes of
many hundreds of cases to which I have never alluded, nor was it
caused by any waning interest on the part of my readers in the
singular personality and unique methods of this remarkable man.
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