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take upon myself, but I have given Hopkins an excellent<br />

hint, and if he can’t avail himself of it I can<br />

do no more. See here, Captain Croker, we’ll do<br />

this in due form of law. You are the prisoner. Watson,<br />

you are a British jury, and I never met a man<br />

who was more eminently fitted to represent one.<br />

I am the judge. Now, gentleman of the jury, you<br />

have heard the evidence. Do you find the prisoner<br />

guilty or not guilty?”<br />

“Not guilty, my lord,” said I.<br />

“Vox populi, vox Dei. You are acquitted, Captain<br />

Croker. So long as the law does not find some<br />

other victim you are safe from me. Come back<br />

to this lady in a year, and may her future and<br />

yours justify us in the judgment which we have<br />

pronounced this night.”

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