The bottom of the panel contains a parting message from the author: "I hereby apologize to each and every reader.

His parting message to them was never to hate anyone, as he had abandoned any hatred for people while he was in jail.

So in effect, their parting message to us is, we have our lives and you have yours.

What was missing was a parting message: that in tough times a strategy was emerging.

When they left the vault, a parting message was written on the wall, which said; "we came with no malice; but went in peace".

The report's authors included a simple parting message for Americans on what more oil development would mean.

"Summon us when you're finished," their parting message said.

The parting message can be seen within the last lines of the poems:

"Did he chance to leave a parting message of any moment?"

"Didn't it strike you as odd that in the man's parting message he took the time to thank us for our food and hospitality?"