Your skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it.

And now I must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I have done him.

As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my very heart.

Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is wherever Sir George Burnwell is.

It is equally certain, too, that whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than sufficient punishment.".