“What did Miss Stein pay you for your services?”
“That amount I now will keep in spite of a delay in execution. But its been a pleasure working for the Moriarty family.”
Even at his age Holmes still maintained the ability to slow his pulse and calm any emotional response. Not to say his mind wasn’t racing to very corner of his skull to weight out the danger those two words invoked. The Game had moved from a pleasant distraction to one of dire consequences. Had he known he would have been less caviler.
Slowly he moved to the right.