Sherlock Holmes And The Chinese Junk Affair And Other Stories - Plot & Excerpts
He insisted however that, like official government papers, it should not be published for at least thirty years. ‘By that time you and I will no doubt have passed on, my dear Watson.’ The reason why Holmes wished it to be kept secret was because it involved national security and the highest persons in the land. To have let the facts of the case be known to certain powerful nations abroad would have done Britain little good and given comfort to our possible enemies. The case began in a typical London fog which swirled around and in which ghostly apparitions came and went. It was welcomed only by the undertakers who always became busy as the elderly with chest problems gasped and coughed their last in an effort to breathe. Holmes and I had been out on a visit to a mutual friend who was in a bad way and wished us to witness his will. Holmes picked up a card which had been pushed under the door in our absence. He unbuttoned his coat with one hand, and held the card with the other, turned it over, and put it on the mantelshelf.
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