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"I see the coroner's jury brought in a verdict of wilful murder against some person or persons unknown," Wendover remarked. "I suppose it's the only verdict that would fit the case. They seemed to think you'd been rather slack in not having it all cut and dried for them, Clinton. Quite obviously they wanted the murderer's head on a charger, and they were disappointed when you couldn't produce the article."
"I think they were disappointed that we hadn't given them more evidence than we did," Sir Clinton suggested with a certain indifference in his tone. "They seemed to imagine that the whole affair had been got up for their amusement -- so that half of them could take on the post of Sherlock-on-the-Pounce. They can pounce away to their heart's content if they wish. I'm not stopping them. But it isn't my business to supply them with springboards, though they seemed to think so. All I wanted was to get the formalities through without too much jaw. And the coroner, decent man, saw to that for me."