The Complete Sherlock Holmes

seething foam, will lie for all time the most dangerous
criminal and the foremost champion of the
law of their generation. The Swiss youth was never
found again, and there can be no doubt that he was
one of the numerous agents whom Moriarty kept
in his employ. As to the gang, it will be within
the memory of the public how completely the evidence
which Holmes had accumulated exposed
their organization, and how heavily the hand of
the dead man weighed upon them. Of their terrible
chief few details came out during the proceedings,
and if I have now been compelled to make a
clear statement of his career it is due to those injudicious
champions who have endeavored to clear
his memory by attacks upon him whom I shall
ever regard as the best and the wisest man whom
I have ever known.