I know that it spoke, and
moved, and looked as that man spoke, and moved, and looked in life;
that I heard, or seemed to hear, things related which I could never
otherwise have learned; that I was guided, as it were, by that vision
on the platform to the identification of the murderer; and that, a
passive instrument myself, I was destined, by means of these mysterious
teachings, to bring about the ends of justice. For these things I have
never been able to account.
As for that matter of the cigar-case, it proved on inquiry, that the
carriage in which I travelled down that afternoon to Clayborough had
not been in use for several weeks, and was in point of fact the same
in which poor John Dwerrihouse had performed his last journey. The case
had, doubtless, been dropped by him, and had lain unnoticed till I found
it.
Upon the details of the murder I have no need to dwell. Those who desire
more ample particulars may find them, and the written confession of
Augustus Raikes, in the files of the Times for 1856.
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