After the lapse of time that has passed since their crime, it was impossible for me to secure a conviction against them in any court.

I knew of their guilt though, and I determined that I should be judge, jury, and executioner all rolled into one.

You'd have done the same, if you have any manhood in you, if you had been in my place.
"That girl that I spoke of was to have married me twenty years ago.

She was forced into marrying that same Drebber, and broke her heart over it.

I took the marriage ring from her dead finger, and I vowed that his dying eyes should rest upon that very ring, and that his last thoughts should be of the crime for which he was punished.