Two days later, Holmes and Watson learn that Moriarty has used a connection in Government to overturn his conviction.
Watson is furious. "What is the world coming to, when an arch criminal like that is allowed to roam free?"
"I sympathise, Watson," shrugged the great detective, "but I fear there is little we can do. This is after all a decision reached by Her Majesty's Government."
"You mean..?"
"I'm afraid so," said Holmes. "Parliamentary, my dear Watson."
Watson is furious. "What is the world coming to, when an arch criminal like that is allowed to roam free?"
"I sympathise, Watson," shrugged the great detective, "but I fear there is little we can do. This is after all a decision reached by Her Majesty's Government."
"You mean..?"
"I'm afraid so," said Holmes. "Parliamentary, my dear Watson."
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
