Irene Norton
'What that a woman!' cried the King. 'Why did't I marry her? What a woman!'
'A very, very clever woman,' said Sherlock Holmes coldly. 'I am sorry, Your Majesty, that this business has not finished well.'
'No,no,' said the king. 'She writes that she were never show the photograph to anybody. I need nothing more than her word. There is no danger for me now. How can I thing you, dear Mr Holmes?'
'I would like just one thing, Your Majesty.'
'Tell me at once what it is,' said the King.
'This photograph.'
The King looked at him in surprise. 'Irene's photograph?' he cried. 'But course. It is your.'
And so there was no terrible scandal in the royal families of Europe. And Sherlock Holmes still has the photograph of the woman who was cleverer than he was.