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THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES

Vox populi, vox Dei. You are acquitted, Captan Crocker. 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!”