"No; nor is it necessary, if he is caught, even to bring him before a jury. That's been done already, you see."
"Done already?"
Avery nodded again toward the photograph on the table. "Yes, Harry, have you never seen a picture with the numbers printed in below like that? Can't you guess yet where your father must have sent for that picture? Don't you know what those numbers mean?"
"What do they mean?"
"They are the figures of his number in what is called 'The Rogue's Gallery'; now have you heard of it?"
"Go on."
"And they mean he has committed a crime and been tried and convicted of it; they mean in this case that he has committed a murder!"
"A murder!"
"For which he was convicted and sentenced."
"Sentenced!"