Chapter 27Sherlock’s Last Case
“All we have is a fragment of the program,” said Armstrong, “but we haven’t a clue where it came from or what it’s about.”
“Show me,” said Holmes.
“It’s like this,” said Armstrong, and he leaned over to Holmes and showed him a small scrap of paper filled with strange symbols, brackets, and arrows interleaved with English text.
“What is it?” asked Armstrong. “Lestrade said it was some kind of powerful black magic, come from the future.”
“It’s part of a computer program,” said Holmes, puffing on his pipe. “As part of my experiments with time travel I’ve managed to teleport a computer and a large set of files ...
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