“We have ended our quest and we have secured retribution. Justice was beyond our reach, for complete justice implies restitution; and to attain that, the dead must have been recalled from the grave. But, at least sometimes, out of evil cometh good. Surely it will seem to you, when, in the happy years which I trust and confidently believe lie before you, your thoughts turn back to the days of your mourning and grief, that the beloved father, who, when living, made your happiness his chief concern, even in dying, bequeathed to you a blessing.”
the end
Transcriber’s Notes
This transcription follows the text of the 1926 edition published by A. L. Burt Company in 1927. However, the following alterations have been made to correct what are believed to be unambiguous errors in the text:
- Four missing quotation marks have been restored.
- The word “addess” has been corrected to “address” (Chapter I).
- The word “precints” has been corrected to “precincts” (Chapter II).
- The word “herb-side” has been corrected to “kerb-side” (Chapter IV).
- The word “elphant” has been corrected to “elephant” (Chapter XIII).