Call from Afar

"Riga – O."

Of all the cryptic messages in the past weeks' agony columns I could find, that one alone might have been from Holmes, but it was enough. I took to watching the papers like a hawk, and was rewarded first with "Stockholm – O," and a few days later, "Copenhagen – O." But I was concentrating so hard on the agony columns that it was Mary who first noticed the article on page three of the Chronicle.

"Look, John!" she cried, thrusting the newspaper into my hand and pointing to the headline. "Sherlock Holmes meets with the Crown Prince of Scandinavia!"

Call from Afar

"Riga – O."

Of all the cryptic messages in the past weeks' agony columns I could find, that one alone might have been from Holmes, but it was enough. I took to watching the papers like a hawk, and was rewarded first with "Stockholm – O," and a few days later, "Copenhagen – O." But I was concentrating so hard on the agony columns that it was Mary who first noticed the article on page three of the Chronicle.

"Look, John!" she cried, thrusting the newspaper into my hand and pointing to the headline. "Sherlock Holmes meets with the Crown Prince of Scandinavia!"