The Complete Sherlock Holmes

castle in the air fell down, it buried him beneath
the ruins. He was last heard of at a nursing-home
in Brixton. It was a glad day at the Yard when
the Prescott outfit was discovered, for, though they
knew that it existed, they had never been able, after
the death of the man, to find out where it was.
Evans had indeed done great service and caused
several worthy C. I. D. men to sleep the sounder,
for the counterfeiter stands in a class by himself as
a public danger. They would willingly have subscribed
to that soup-plate medal of which the criminal
had spoken, but an unappreciative bench took
a less favourable view, and the Killer returned to
those shades from which he had just emerged.