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'
It
only
remains
for
us
to
find
out
what
this
secret
was
which
the
sailor
Hudson
seems
to
have
held
over
the
heads
of
these
two
wealthy
and
respected
men
.
'
"
'
Alas
,
Holmes
,
I
fear
that
it
is
one
of
sin
and
shame
!
"
cried
my
friend
.
'
But
from
you
I
shall
have
no
secrets
.
Here
is
the
statement
which
was
drawn
up
by
my
father
when
he
knew
that
the
danger
from
Hudson
had
become
imminent
.
I
found
it
in
the
Japanese
cabinet
,
as
he
told
the
doctor
.
Take
it
and
read
it
to
me
,
for
I
have
neither
the
strength
nor
the
courage
to
do
it
myself
.
'
"
These
are
the
very
papers
,
Watson
,
which
he
handed
to
me
,
and
I
will
read
them
to
you
,
as
I
read
them
in
the
old
study
that
night
to
him
.
They
are
endorsed
outside
,
as
you
see
,
'
Some
particulars
of
the
voyage
of
the
bark
Gloria
Scott
,
from
her
leaving
Falmouth
on
the
8th
October
,
1855
,
to
her
destruction
in
N.
Lat
.
15
degrees
20
'
.
W.
Long
.
25
degrees
14
'
,
on
Nov.
6th
.
"
It
is
in
the
form
of
a
letter
,
and
runs
in
this
way
.
"
'
My
dear
,
dear
son
,
now
that
approaching
disgrace
begins
to
darken
the
closing
years
of
my
life
,
I
can
write
with
all
truth
and
honesty
that
it
is
not
the
terror
of
the
law
,
it
is
not
the
loss
of
my
position
in
the
county
,
nor
is
it
my
fall
in
the
eyes
of
all
who
have
known
me
,
which
cuts
me
to
the
heart
;
but
it
is
the
thought
that
you
should
come
to
blush
for
me
--
you
who
love
me
and
who
have
seldom
,
I
hope
,
had
reason
to
do
other
than
respect
me
.
But
if
the
blow
falls
which
is
forever
hanging
over
me
,
then
I
should
wish
you
to
read
this
,
that
you
may
know
straight
from
me
how
far
I
have
been
to
blame
.
On
the
other
hand
,
if
all
should
go
well
(
which
may
kind
God
Almighty
grant
!
)
,
then
,
if
by
any
chance
this
paper
should
be
still
undestroyed
and
should
fall
into
your
hands
,
I
conjure
you
,
by
all
you
hold
sacred
,
by
the
memory
of
your
dear
mother
,
and
by
the
love
which
has
been
between
us
,
to
hurl
it
into
the
fire
and
to
never
give
one
thought
to
it
again
.
"
'
If
then
your
eye
goes
on
to
read
this
line
,
I
know
that
I
shall
already
have
been
exposed
and
dragged
from
my
home
,
or
,
as
is
more
likely
,
for
you
know
that
my
heart
is
weak
,
be
lying
with
my
tongue
sealed
forever
in
death
.
In
either
case
the
time
for
suppression
is
past
,
and
every
word
which
I
tell
you
is
the
naked
truth
,
and
this
I
swear
as
I
hope
for
mercy
.
"
'
My
name
,
dear
lad
,
is
not
Trevor
.
I
was
James
Armitage
in
my
younger
days
,
and
you
can
understand
now
the
shock
that
it
was
to
me
a
few
weeks
ago
when
your
college
friend
addressed
me
in
words
which
seemed
to
imply
that
he
had
surprised
my
secret
.
As
Armitage
it
was
that
I
entered
a
London
banking-house
,
and
as
Armitage
I
was
convicted
of
breaking
my
country
's
laws
,
and
was
sentenced
to
transportation
.
Do
not
think
very
harshly
of
me
,
laddie
.
It
was
a
debt
of
honour
,
so
called
,
which
I
had
to
pay
,
and
I
used
money
which
was
not
my
own
to
do
it
,
in
the
certainty
that
I
could
replace
it
before
there
could
be
any
possibility
of
its
being
missed
.
But
the
most
dreadful
ill-luck
pursued
me
.
The
money
which
I
had
reckoned
upon
never
came
to
hand
,
and
a
premature
examination
of
accounts
exposed
my
deficit
.
The
case
might
have
been
dealt
leniently
with
,
but
the
laws
were
more
harshly
administered
thirty
years
ago
than
now
,
and
on
my
twenty-third
birthday
I
found
myself
chained
as
a
felon
with
thirty-seven
other
convicts
in
the
'
tween-decks
of
the
bark
Gloria
Scott
,
bound
for
Australia
.
"
'
It
was
the
year
'
55
,
when
the
Crimean
War
was
at
its
height
,
and
the
old
convict
ships
had
been
largely
used
as
transports
in
the
Black
Sea
.
The
government
was
compelled
,
therefore
,
to
use
smaller
and
less
suitable
vessels
for
sending
out
their
prisoners
.
The
Gloria
Scott
had
been
in
the
Chinese
tea
trade
,
but
she
was
an
old-fashioned
,
heavy-bowed
,
broad-beamed
craft
,
and
the
new
clippers
had
cut
her
out
.
She
was
a
five-hundred-ton
boat
;
and
besides
her
thirty-eight
jail-birds
,
she
carried
twenty-six
of
a
crew
,
eighteen
soldiers
,
a
captain
,
three
mates
,
a
doctor
,
a
chaplain
,
and
four
warders
.
Nearly
a
hundred
souls
were
in
her
,
all
told
,
when
we
set
sail
from
Falmouth
.
"
'
The
partitions
between
the
cells
of
the
convicts
instead
of
being
of
thick
oak
,
as
is
usual
in
convict-ships
,
were
quite
thin
and
frail
.
The
man
next
to
me
,
upon
the
aft
side
,
was
one
whom
I
had
particularly
noticed
when
we
were
led
down
the
quay
.
He
was
a
young
man
with
a
clear
,
hairless
face
,
a
long
,
thin
nose
,
and
rather
nut-cracker
jaws
.
