Solitary Cyclist Page 13
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
In the whirl of our incessant activity it has often been difficult for me, as the reader has probably
observed, to round off my narratives, and to give those final details which the curious might expect.
Each case has been the prelude to another, and the crisis once over the actors have passed for ever out
of our busy lives. I find, however, a short note at the end of my manuscripts dealing with this case, in
which I have put it upon record that Miss Violet Smith did indeed inherit a large fortune, and that she is
now the wife of Cyril Morton, the senior partner of Morton & Kennedy, the famous Westminster
electricians. Williamson and Woodley were both tried for abduction and assault, the former getting
seven years and the latter ten. Of the fate of Carruthers I have no record, but I am sure that his assault
was not viewed very gravely by the Court, since Woodley had the reputation of being a most dangerous
ruffian, and I think that a few months were sufficient to satisfy the demands of justice.