福尔摩斯探案集第5季 福尔摩斯探案经典:《恐怖谷》第13章Part5

福尔摩斯探案经典:《恐怖谷》第13章Part5  

The trial of the Scowrers was held far from the place where their adherents might have terrified the guardians of the law. In vain they struggled. In vain the money of the lodge--money squeezed by blackmail out of the whole countryside--was spent like water in the attempt to save them. That cold
clear
unimpassioned statement from one who knew every detail of their lives
their anization
and their crimes was unshaken by all the wiles of their defenders. At last after so many years they were broken and scattered. The cloud was lifted forever from the valley.
McGinty met his fate upon the scaffold
cringing and whining when the last hour came. Eight of his chief followers shared his fate. Fifty-odd had various degrees of imprisonment. The work of Birdy Edwards was plete.
And yet
as he had guessed
the game was not over yet. There was another hand to be played
and yet another and another. Ted Baldwin
for one
had escaped the scaffold; so had the Willabys; so had several others of the fiercest spirits of the gang. For ten years they were out of the world
and then came a day when they were free once more--a day which Edwards
who knew his men
was very sure would be an end of his life of peace. They had sworn an oath on all that they thought holy to have his blood as a vengeance for their rades. And well they strove to keep their vow!
From Chicago he was chased
after o attempts so near success that it was sure that the third would get him. From Chicago he went under a changed name to California
and it was there that the light went for a time out of his life when Ettie Edwards died. Once again he was nearly killed
and once again under the name of Douglas he worked in a lonely canon
where with an English partner named Barker he amassed a fortune. At last there came a warning to him that the bloodhounds were on his track once more
and he cleared--only just in time--for England. And thence came the John Douglas who for a second time married a worthy mate
and lived for five years as a Sussex county gentleman
a life which ended with the strange happenings of which we have heard.