The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Part 2 (1/2)
”Very, indeed And what does she propose to do with the photograph?”
”To ruin me”
”But how?”
”I am about to be married”
”So I have heard”
”To Clotilde Loth of Scandinavia You may know the strict principles of her family She is herself the very soul of delicacy A shadow of a doubt as tothe matter to an end”
”And Irene Adler?”
”Threatens to send theraph And she will do it I know that she will do it You do not know her, but she has a soul of steel She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and the mind of the most resolute of men Rather than I should ths to which she would not go--none”
”You are sure that she has not sent it yet?”
”I am sure”
”And why?”
”Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the betrothal was publicly proclaimed That will be next Monday”
”Oh, then we have three days yet,” said Holmes with a yawn ”That is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to look into just at present Your Majesty will, of course, stay in London for the present?”
”Certainly You will find ham under the name of the Count Von Kramm”
”Then I shall drop you a line to let you knoe progress”
”Pray do so I shall be all anxiety”
”Then, as to money?”
”You have carte blanche”
”Absolutely?”
”I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of raph”
”And for present expenses?”
The King took a heavy cha from under his cloak and laid it on the table
”There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in notes,” he said
Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and handed it to him