The photograph is gone. In its place? A portrait of Adler—and a note revealing she has fled with her new husband. Holmes, defeated but awestruck, asks for her photograph as payment. The King is stunned. “What a woman!” he cries. Holmes replies, coldly: “To Sherlock Holmes, she is always the woman.”
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