Its importance can hardly be exaggerated. It has been the mostjealously guarded of all government secrets. You may take itfrom me that naval warfare becomes impossible withing the radiusof a Bruce-Partington's operation. Two years ago a very largesum was smuggled through the Estimates and was expended inacquiring a monopoly of the invention

We have just done so. What were the technical papers?Ah, there's the point! Fortunately, it has not come out. Thepress would be furious if it did. The papers which this wretchedyouth had in his pocket were the plans of the Bruce-Partingtonsubmarine.

The gravity of both their faces foretold someweighty quest. The detective shook hands without a word.Mycroft Holmes struggled out of his overcoat and subsided into anarmchair.A most annoying business, Sherlock, said he. I extremelydislike altering my habits, but the powers that be would take nodenial.

A moment later the tall and portly form of Mycroft Holmes wasushered into the room. Heavily built and massive, there was asuggestion of uncouth physical inertia in the figure, but abovethis unwieldy frame there was perched a head so masterful in itsbrow, so alert in its steel-gray, deep-set eyes, so firm in itslips, and so subtle in its play of expression, that after thefirst glance one forgot the gross body and remembered only thedominant mind.... Continuar leyendo

Apparently not. There is a list here of his possessions. Hispurse contained two pounds fifteen. He had also a check-book onthe Woolwich branch of the Capital and Counties Bank. Throughthis his identity was established. There were also two dress-circle tickets for the Woolwich Theatre, dated for that veryevening. Also a small packet of technical papers