Irene Norton
‘What a woman!’ cried the King. ‘Why didn’t marry her! What a woman!’
‘A very, very clever woman,’ said Sherlock Holmes coldiy. ‘I am sorry, Your Majesty, that this business has not finished well.!
‘No, no,’ said the King. ‘She writes that she will never show the photograph to anybody. I need nothing more than her word. There is no danger for me now. Jow can I thank 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 photo-graph?’ he cried. ‘But of course. It is yours.’
And so threr 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.