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“ In view of your health , nothing . You are yourself aware that you will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the Assizes . I will keep your confession , and if McCarthy is condemned I shall be forced to use it . If not , it shall never be seen by mortal eye ; and your secret , whether you be alive or dead , shall be safe with us . ” “ Farewell , then , ” said the old man solemnly . “ Your own deathbeds , when they come , will be the easier for the thought of the peace which you have given to mine . ” Tottering and shaking in all his giant frame , he stumbled slowly from the room . “ God help us ! ” said Holmes after a long silence . “ Why does fate play such tricks with poor , helpless worms ? I never hear of such a case as this that I do not think of Baxter’s words , and say , ‘ There , but for the grace of God , goes Sherlock Holmes . ’ ” James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and submitted to the defending counsel . Old Turner lived for seven months after our interview , but he is now dead ; and there is every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their past . V . THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes cases between the years ’ 82 and ’ 90 , I am faced by so many which present strange and interesting features that it is no easy matter to know which to choose and which to leave . Some , however , have already gained publicity through the papers , and others have not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend possessed in so high a degree , and which it is the object of these papers to illustrate . Some , too , have baffled his analytical skill , and would be , as narratives , beginnings without an ending , while others have been but partially cleared up , and have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to him . There is , however , one of these last which was so remarkable in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are points in connection with it which never have been , and probably never will be , entirely cleared up . The year ’ 87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater or less interest , of which I retain the records . Among my headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the adventure of the Paradol Chamber , of the Amateur Mendicant Society , who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a furniture warehouse , of the facts connected with the loss of the British barque Sophy Anderson , of the singular adventures of the Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa , and finally of the Camberwell poisoning case .
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