The Adventure of the Abbey Grange, Part 2

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[SPEAKER_00]: The adventure of the Abbey Grange
[SPEAKER_00]: part two.
[SPEAKER_00]: The household at the Abbey Grange were much surprised at our return, but Sherlock Holmes, finding that Stanley Hopkins had gone off to report to headquarters, took possession of the dining room, locked the door upon the inside, and devoted himself for two hours to one of those minute and laborious investigations which form the solid basis on which his brilliant edifices of deduction were reared.
[SPEAKER_00]: Seated in a corner like an interested student who observes the demonstration of his professor, I followed every step of that remarkable research.
[SPEAKER_00]: The window, the curtains, the carpet, the chair, the rope, each in turn was minutely examined and duly pondered.
[SPEAKER_00]: The body of the unfortunate barrenet had been removed and all else remained as we had seen it in the morning.
[SPEAKER_00]: Finally, to my astonishment, Holmes climbed up onto the massive mantelpiece.
[SPEAKER_00]: Far above his head hung the few inches of red cord which were still attached to the wire.
[SPEAKER_00]: For a long time he gazed upward at it, and then in an attempt to get nearer to it he rested his knee upon a wooden bracket on the wall.
[SPEAKER_00]: This brought his hand within a few inches of the broken end of the rope,
[SPEAKER_00]: but it was not this so much as the bracket itself, which seemed to engage his attention.
[SPEAKER_00]: Finally, he sprang down with an ejaculation of satisfaction.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's all right Watson, said he.
[SPEAKER_00]: We have got our case, one of the most remarkable in our collection, but dear me, how slow witted I have been, and how nearly I have committed the blunder of my lifetime.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now I think that with a few missing links my chain is almost complete.
[SPEAKER_00]: You have got your men?
[SPEAKER_00]: Man, Watson, man, only one, but a very formidable person.
[SPEAKER_00]: strong as a lion, witness the blow that bent that poker.
[SPEAKER_00]: Six foot three in height, active as a squirrel, dexterous with his fingers.
[SPEAKER_00]: Finally, remarkably quick-witted, for this whole ingenious story is of his concoction.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes Watson we have come upon the handy work of a very remarkable individual, and yet in that bell rope he has given us a clue which
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, if you were to pull down a bell-rope Watson, where would you expect it to break?
[SPEAKER_00]: Surely at the spot where it is attached to the wire?
[SPEAKER_00]: Why should it break three inches from the top as this one has done?
[SPEAKER_00]: Because it is afraid there?
[SPEAKER_00]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_00]: This end, which we can examine, is frais.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was cunning enough to do that with his knife, but the other end is not afraid.
[SPEAKER_00]: You could not observe that from here, but if you were on the mantelpiece you would see that it is cut clean off without any mark of fraying whatever.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can reconstruct what occurred.
[SPEAKER_00]: The man needed the rope.
[SPEAKER_00]: He would not tear it down for fear of giving the alarm by ringing the bell.
[SPEAKER_00]: What did he do?
[SPEAKER_00]: He sprang up on the mantelpiece could not quite reach it, put his knee on the bracket.
[SPEAKER_00]: You will see the impression in the dust, and so got his knife to bear upon the cord.
[SPEAKER_00]: I could not reach the place by at least three inches, from which I infer that he is at least three inches of bigger man than I.
[SPEAKER_00]: Look at that mark upon the seat of the Oken chair.
[SPEAKER_00]: What is it?
[SPEAKER_00]: undoubtedly it is blood.
[SPEAKER_00]: This alone puts the lady's story out of court.
[SPEAKER_00]: If she was seated on the chair when the crime was done, how comes that mark?
[SPEAKER_00]: No, no, she was placed in the chair after the death of her husband.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll wager that the black dress shows a corresponding mark to this.
[SPEAKER_00]: We have not yet met our Waterloo Watson, but this is our Marango for it begins in defeat and ends in victory.
[SPEAKER_00]: I should like now to have a few words with the nurse Theresa, we must be wary for a while if we are to get the information which we want.
[SPEAKER_00]: She was an interesting person this stern Australian nurse, taciturn, suspicious, ungracious.
[SPEAKER_00]: It took some time before Holmes' pleasant manner and frank acceptance of all that she said, thought her into a corresponding amyability.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes sir, it is true that he threw the decanter at me.
[SPEAKER_00]: I heard him call my mistress a name, and I told him that he would not dare to speak so if her brother had been there.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then it was that he threw it at me.
[SPEAKER_00]: He might have thrown a dozen if he had but left my Bonnie Bird alone.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was forever ill-treating her, and she too proud to complain.
[SPEAKER_00]: She will not even tell me all that he has done to her.
[SPEAKER_00]: She never told me of those marks on her arm that you saw this morning, but I know very well that they come from a stab with a hat pin.
[SPEAKER_00]: The slide devil got forgive me that I should speak of him so now that he is dead, but a devil he was, if ever one walked the earth.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was all honey when first we met him, only 18 months ago, and we both feel as if it were 18 years.
[SPEAKER_00]: She had only just arrived in London.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, it was her first voyage.
[SPEAKER_00]: She had never been from home before.
[SPEAKER_00]: He won her with his title and his money and his false London ways if she made a mistake she has paid for it, if ever a woman did.
[SPEAKER_00]: What month did we meet him?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I tell you it was just after we arrived.
[SPEAKER_00]: We arrived in June, and it was July.
[SPEAKER_00]: They were married in January of last year.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, she is down in the morning room again, and I have no doubt she will see you, but you must not ask too much of her for she has gone through all that flesh and blood will stand.
[SPEAKER_00]: Lady Brackenstall was reclining on the same couch but looked brighter than before.
[SPEAKER_00]: The maid had entered with us, and began once more to ferment the bruise upon her mistress's brow.
[SPEAKER_00]: I hope," said the lady, that you have not come to cross examine me again.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, Holmes answered in his gentlest voice, I will not cause you any unnecessary trouble, lady-break install, and my whole desire is to make things easy for you, for I am convinced that you are a much-tried woman.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you will treat me as a friend and trust me, you may find that I will justify your trust.
[SPEAKER_00]: What do you want me to do to tell me the truth?
[SPEAKER_00]: Mr. Holmes No no Lady Brackenstall, it is no use.
[SPEAKER_00]: You may have heard of any little reputation which I possess.
[SPEAKER_00]: I will stake it all on the fact that your story is an absolute fabrication.
[SPEAKER_00]: Mistress and maid were both staring at homes with pale faces and frightened eyes.
[SPEAKER_00]: You are an impudent fellow, cried Theresa.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you mean to say that my mistress has told a lie?
[SPEAKER_00]: Homes rose from his chair.
[SPEAKER_00]: Have you nothing to tell me?
[SPEAKER_00]: I have told you everything.
[SPEAKER_00]: Think once more Lady Brackenstall would it not be better to be frank?
[SPEAKER_00]: For an instant there was hesitation in her beautiful face.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then some new strong thought caused it to set like a mask.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have told you all I know.
[SPEAKER_00]: Homes took his hat and shrugged his shoulders.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sorry, he said, and without another word we left the room and the house.
[SPEAKER_00]: There was a pond in the park and to this my friend led the way.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was frozen over but a single hole was left for the convenience of a solitary swan.
[SPEAKER_00]: Homes gazed at it and then passed on to the lodge gate.
[SPEAKER_00]: There he scribbled a short note for Stanley Hopkins and left it with the lodge keeper.
[SPEAKER_00]: It may be a hit or it may be a miss, but we are bound to do something for friend Hopkins just to justify this second visit.
[SPEAKER_00]: Said he, I will not quite take him into my confidence yet.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think our next scene of operations must be the shipping office of the Adelaide's Health Hampton Line, which stands at the end of Palmar, if I remember right.
[SPEAKER_00]: There is a second line of steamers which connects South Australia with England, but we will draw the larger cover first.
[SPEAKER_00]: Holmes' card sent into the manager in short instant attention and he was not long in acquiring all the information he needed.
[SPEAKER_00]: In June of 1995, only one of their line had reached a home port.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was the rock of Gibraltar, their largest and best boat.
[SPEAKER_00]: A reference to the passenger list showed that Miss Fraser of Adelaide, with her maid, had
[SPEAKER_00]: The boat was now somewhere south of the Suer's Canal on her way to Australia.
[SPEAKER_00]: Her officers were the same as in 95 with one exception.
[SPEAKER_00]: The first officer, Mr. Jack Crocker, had been made a captain and was to take charge of their new ship, the Bass Rock, sailing in two days time from Southampton.
[SPEAKER_00]: He lived at Siddenham but he was likely to be in that morning for instructions if we
[SPEAKER_00]: No Mr. Holmes had no desire to see him, but would be glad to know more about his record and character.
[SPEAKER_00]: His record was magnificent, there was not an officer in the fleet to touch him.
[SPEAKER_00]: As to his character he was reliable on duty, but a wild, desperate fellow off the deck of his ship, hot headed, excitable, but loyal, honest, and kindhearted.
[SPEAKER_00]: That was the pit of the information with which Holmes left the office of the Adelaide South Hampton Company.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then he drove to Scotland Yard, but instead of entering, he sat in his cab with his brows drawn down lost in profound thought.
[SPEAKER_00]: Finally he drove round to the chairing cross telegraph office, sent off a message, and then at last we made for Baker Street once more.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, I couldn't do it Watson, said he as we re-entered our room.
[SPEAKER_00]: Once that warrant was made out, nothing on earth would save him.
[SPEAKER_00]: Once or twice in my career I feel that I have done more real harm by my discovery of the criminal than ever he had done by his crime.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have learned caution now and I had rather played tricks with the law of England than with my own conscience, let us know a little more before we act.
[SPEAKER_00]: before evening we had a visit from Inspector Stanley Hopkins.
[SPEAKER_00]: Things were not going very well with him.
[SPEAKER_00]: I believe that you are a wizard, Mr. Holmes.
[SPEAKER_00]: I really do sometimes think that you have powers that are not human.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, how on earth could you know that the stolen
[SPEAKER_00]: but you told me to examine it.
[SPEAKER_00]: You got it then?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, I got it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I am very glad if I have helped you.
[SPEAKER_00]: But you haven't helped me.
[SPEAKER_00]: You have made the affair far more difficult.
[SPEAKER_00]: What sort of burglars are they who steal silver and then throw it into the nearest pawn?
[SPEAKER_00]: it was certainly rather eccentric behaviour.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was merely going on the idea that if the silver had been taken by persons who did not want it, who merely took it for a blind as it were, then they would naturally be anxious to get rid of it.
[SPEAKER_00]: But why should such an idea cross your mind?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well I thought it was possible.
[SPEAKER_00]: When they came out through the French window, there was the pond with one tempting little hole in the ice, right in front of their noses.
[SPEAKER_00]: Could there be a better hiding place?
[SPEAKER_00]: Ah, a hiding place, that is better.
[SPEAKER_00]: Clyde Stanley Hopkins.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, yes, I see it all now.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was early.
[SPEAKER_00]: There were folk up on the roads.
[SPEAKER_00]: They were afraid of being seen with the silver, so they sank it in the pond, intending to return for it when the coast was clear.
[SPEAKER_00]: excellent Mr. Holmes that is better than your idea of a blind.
[SPEAKER_00]: Quite so you have got an admirable theory.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have no doubt that my own ideas were quite wild, but you must admit that they have ended in discovering the silver.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes sir, yes it was all you are doing but I have had a bad setback.
[SPEAKER_00]: A setback.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, Mr. Holmes.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Randall gang were arrested in New York this morning.
[SPEAKER_00]: Dear me, Hopkins, that is certainly rather against your theory that they committed a murder in Kent last night.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is fatal, Mr. Holmes, absolutely fatal.
[SPEAKER_00]: Still there are other gangs of three besides the Randalls, or it may be some new gang
[SPEAKER_00]: Quite so, it is perfectly possible.
[SPEAKER_00]: What?
[SPEAKER_00]: Are you off?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, Mr. Holmes, there is no rest for me until I have got to the bottom of the business.
[SPEAKER_00]: I suppose you have no hint to give me.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have given you one.
[SPEAKER_00]: Which?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I suggested a blind.
[SPEAKER_00]: But why, Mr. Holmes, why?
[SPEAKER_00]: Ah, that's the question, of course.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I commend the idea to your mind.
[SPEAKER_00]: You might possibly find that there was something in it.
[SPEAKER_00]: You won't stop for dinner, well, goodbye, and let us know how you get on.
[SPEAKER_00]: Dinner was over, and the table cleared before Holmes alluded to the matter again.
[SPEAKER_00]: He had lit his pipe and held his slippered feet to the cheerful blaze of the fire.
[SPEAKER_00]: Suddenly he looked at his watch.
[SPEAKER_00]: I expect developments Watson.
[SPEAKER_00]: When?
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, within a few minutes, I dare say you thought I acted rather badly to Stanley Hopkins just now.
[SPEAKER_00]: I trust your judgment.
[SPEAKER_00]: A very sensible reply, Watson.
[SPEAKER_00]: You must look at it this way.
[SPEAKER_00]: What I know is unofficial.
[SPEAKER_00]: What he knows is official.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have the right to private judgment, but he has none.
[SPEAKER_00]: He must disclose all, or he is a traitor to his service.
[SPEAKER_00]: In a doubtful case, I would not put him in so painful a position, and so I reserve my information until my own mind is clear upon the matter.
[SPEAKER_00]: But when will that be?
[SPEAKER_00]: The time has come.
[SPEAKER_00]: You will now be present at the last scene of a remarkable little drama.
[SPEAKER_00]: There was a sound upon the stairs and our door was opened to admit as fine as specimen of manhood as ever passed through it.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was a very tall young man, golden moustache, blue-eyed, with a skin which had been burned by tropical suns, and a springy step which showed that the huge frame was as active as it was strong.
[SPEAKER_00]: He closed the door behind him, and then he stood with clenched hands and heaving breast, choking down some over-mastering emotion.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sit down, Captain Crocker.
[SPEAKER_00]: You got my telegram.
[SPEAKER_00]: Our visitor sank into an armchair and looked from one to the other of us with questioning eyes.
[SPEAKER_00]: I got your telegram and I came at the hour you said, I heard that you'd been down to the office.
[SPEAKER_00]: There was no getting away from you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's hear the worst.
[SPEAKER_00]: What are you going to do with me?
[SPEAKER_00]: Arrest me?
[SPEAKER_00]: Speak out, man.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can't sit there and play with me like a cat with a mouse.
[SPEAKER_00]: Give him a cigar, said Holmes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Bite on that, Captain Crocker, and don't let your nerves run away with you.
[SPEAKER_00]: I should not sit here smoking with you if I thought that you were a common criminal.
[SPEAKER_00]: You may be sure of that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Be frank with me and we may do some good.
[SPEAKER_00]: Play tricks with me and I'll crush you.
[SPEAKER_00]: What do you wish me to do?
[SPEAKER_00]: To give me a true account of all that happened at the Abbey Grange last night, a true account mind you with nothing added and nothing taken off.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know so much already that if you go one inch off the straight I'll blow this police whistle from my window and the affair goes out of my hands forever.
[SPEAKER_00]: The sailor thought for a little.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then he struck his leg with his great sunburned hand.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll chance it, he cried.
[SPEAKER_00]: I believe you are a man of your word and a white man, and I'll tell you the whole story.
[SPEAKER_00]: But one thing I will say first, so far as I am concerned I regret nothing and I fear nothing.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I would do it all again and be proud of the job dem the beast if he had as many lives as a cat he would owe them all to me.
[SPEAKER_00]: But it's the lady, Mary, Mary Fraser.
[SPEAKER_00]: never will I call her by that a cursed name.
[SPEAKER_00]: When I think of getting her into trouble, I who would give my life just to bring one smile to her dear face, it's that that turns my soul into water, and yet, and yet, what less could I do?
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll tell you my story gentlemen and then I'll ask you as man to man, what less could I do?
[SPEAKER_00]: I must go back a bit, you seem to know everything so I expect that you know that I met her when she was a passenger,
[SPEAKER_00]: And I was first officer of the Rock of Gibraltar.
[SPEAKER_00]: From the first day I met her, she was the only woman to me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Every day of that voyage I loved her more and many a time since have I kneeled down in the darkness of the night watch and kissed the deck of that ship because I knew her dear feet had trotted.
[SPEAKER_00]: She was never engaged to me.
[SPEAKER_00]: She treated me as failures ever a woman treated a man.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have no complaint to make.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was all love on my side and all good comradeship and friendship on hers.
[SPEAKER_00]: When we parted, she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.
[SPEAKER_00]: Next time I came back from sea, I heard of her marriage.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, why shouldn't she marry whom she liked?
[SPEAKER_00]: Title and money, who could carry them better than she?
[SPEAKER_00]: She was born for all that is beautiful and dainty.
[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't grieve over her marriage.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was not such a selfish hound as that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just rejoiced that good luck had come her way, and that she had not thrown herself away on a penniless sailor.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's how I loved Mary Fraser.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I never thought to see her again, but last voyage I was promoted, and the new boat was not yet launched, so I had to wait for a couple of months with my people at Siddenham.
[SPEAKER_00]: One day out in a country lane I met Theresa Wright, her old maid.
[SPEAKER_00]: She told me all about her about him, about everything.
[SPEAKER_00]: I tell you gentlemen, it nearly drove me mad.
[SPEAKER_00]: This drunken hound, that he should dare to raise his hand to her, whose boots he was not worthy to lick.
[SPEAKER_00]: I met Theresa again, then I met Mary herself, and met her again.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then she would meet me no more.
[SPEAKER_00]: But the other day I had a notice that I was to start on my voyage within a week, and I determined that I would see her once before I left.
[SPEAKER_00]: Theresa was always my friend.
[SPEAKER_00]: For she loved Mary, and hated this villain almost as much as I did.
[SPEAKER_00]: From her I learned the ways of the house.
[SPEAKER_00]: Mary used to sit up reading in her own little room downstairs.
[SPEAKER_00]: I crept round their last night and scratched at the window.
[SPEAKER_00]: At first she would not open to me, but in her heart I know that now she loves me and she could not leave me in the frosty night.
[SPEAKER_00]: She whispered to me to come round to the big front window and I found it open before me, so as to let me into the dining room.
[SPEAKER_00]: Again I heard from her own lips things that made my blood boil and again I cursed this broot whom is handled the woman I loved.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well gentlemen, I was standing with a just inside the window, in all innocence as God is my judge when he rushed like a madman into the room, called her the violest name that a man could use to a woman, and welded her across the face with the stick he had in his hand.
[SPEAKER_00]: I had sprung for the poker, and it was a fair fight between us.
[SPEAKER_00]: See here, on my arm, where his first blow fell.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then it was my turn, and I went through him as if he had been a rotten pumpkin.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you think I was sorry?
[SPEAKER_00]: Not I.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was his life or mind, but far more than that.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was his life or hers.
[SPEAKER_00]: For how could I leave her in the power of this madman?
[SPEAKER_00]: That was how I killed him.
[SPEAKER_00]: Was I wrong?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well then.
[SPEAKER_00]: What would either of you gentlemen have done if you had been in my position?
[SPEAKER_00]: She had screamed when he struck her, and that brought old Theresa down from the room above.
[SPEAKER_00]: There was a bottle of wine on the sideboard, and I opened it and poured a little between Mary's lips, for she was half dead with shock, then I took a drop myself.
[SPEAKER_00]: Theresa was as cool as ice, and it was her plot as much as mine.
[SPEAKER_00]: We must make it appear that burglars had done the thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Teresa kept on repeating our story to her mistress, while I swarmed up and cut the rope of the bell, then I lashed her in her chair, and frayed out the end of the rope to make it look natural, else they would wonder how in the world a burglar could have got up there to cut it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then I gathered up a few plates and pots of silver to carry out the idea of the robbery, and there I left them, with orders to give the alarm when I had a quarter of an hour
[SPEAKER_00]: I dropped the silver into the pond, and made off for Sidon and feeling that for once in my life I had done a real good night's work, and that's the truth and the whole truth Mr. Holmes, if it cost me my neck.
[SPEAKER_00]: Holmes smoked for some time in silence.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then he crossed the room and shook our visitor by the hand.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what I think, said he.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know that every word is true for you have hardly said a word which I did not know.
[SPEAKER_00]: No one but an acrobat or a sailor could have got up to that bell rope from the bracket.
[SPEAKER_00]: And no one but a sailor could have made the knots with which the cord was fastened to the chair.
[SPEAKER_00]: Only once had this lady been brought into contact with sailors, and that was on her voyage, and it was someone of her own class of life since she was trying hard to shield him.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so showing that she loved him.
[SPEAKER_00]: You see how easy it was for me to lay my hands upon you when once I had started upon the right trail.
[SPEAKER_00]: I thought the police never could have seen through our dodge.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the police haven't nor will they to the best of my belief.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now look here Captain Crocker, this is a very serious matter, though I am willing to admit that you acted under the most extreme provocation to which any man could be subjected.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not sure that in defense of your own life, your action will not be pronounced legitimate.
[SPEAKER_00]: However, that is for a British jury to decide.
[SPEAKER_00]: Meanwhile, I have so much sympathy for you that if you choose to disappear in the next 24 hours, I will promise you that no one will hinder you.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then it will all come out.
[SPEAKER_00]: Certainly it will come out.
[SPEAKER_00]: the sailor flushed with anger.
[SPEAKER_00]: What sort of proposal is that to make a man?
[SPEAKER_00]: I know enough of law to understand that Mary would be held as a complex.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you think I would leave her alone to face the music while I slunk away?
[SPEAKER_00]: No, sir.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let them do their worst upon me, but for Heaven's sake, Mr. Holmes finds some way of keeping my poor Mary out of the courts.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was only testing you and you ring true every time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, it is a great responsibility that I take upon myself, but I have given Hopkins an excellent hint and if he can't avail himself of it, I can do no more.
[SPEAKER_00]: See here, Captain Crocker will do this in due form of law.
[SPEAKER_00]: You are the prisoner.
[SPEAKER_00]: Watson, you are a British jury and I never met a man who was more eminently fitted to represent one.
[SPEAKER_00]: I am the judge.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, gentlemen of the jury of her the evidence to you find the prisoner guilty or not guilty.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not guilty, my Lord.
[SPEAKER_00]: Said I. Vox Populi, Vox Day.
[SPEAKER_00]: You are a quitted captain, Crocker.
[SPEAKER_00]: So long as the Lord does not find some other victim, you are safe from me.
[SPEAKER_00]: 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.
[UNKNOWN]: Thank you.
[UNKNOWN]: Thank you.
[UNKNOWN]: You
[UNKNOWN]: Thank you.
[UNKNOWN]: Thank you very much.
[UNKNOWN]: Thank you.