Grand Reveal
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acdholmesfest"Holmes, look at this! Disaster!"
My friend sat up in his chair by the fire in the cosy sitting room of our cottage with a peculiar clang as his boots hit something on their way from the fender stool to the floor. His straight back and piercing eyes positively forbade me to so much as imagine he might have been asleep in the daytime. He took the copy of the Evening Standard that I thrust into his hands and shook it open with calm deliberation. After a minute or two holding the pages at various distances from his nose he sighed and stretched out his left arm and hand. I dropped his hated, but of late essential, reading-glasses into the waiting palm without comment.
"I presume you refer to this article," he said after a minute or two more. He handled the paper so swiftly that I didn't see how he contrived to bring the stark paragraph to the top and centre of the bundle which he handed back to me so that the headline DIRECT HIT IN CHARING CROSS ROAD:BANK VAULTS BREACHED BY ZEPPELIN RAID made my pulse quicken in alarm all over again.
"My dispatch box, Holmes. The records of all your unpublished cases. They could all be gone, or worse."
"Yes, worse: they could all be safe, and you will try to twist my arm and insist on publishing the story about the time I...you know the one," he finished, darkly.
"You know I gave you my solemn promise about that. I meant to say, suppose the contents of that box are even now blowing up the Strand or floating in the fountains at Trafalgar Square? All the real names and details of your former clients, unedited and unexpurgated. The cormorant, Holmes!"
"Watson, do calm yourself, there's a good fellow." He shifted one leg and reached under his chair, dragging out a familiar, battered tin object. I gasped with joy and relief.
"Brother Mycroft had word that London might see enemy action this week. We took the precaution of removing this for somewhat safer keeping two days ago."
Knees creaking like the worn timepieces they were, I knelt on the rug and worked at the lock with the key hanging from my watch chain. I lifted the lid and yes, everything was there: cabinet ministers and their cormorants, duchesses and their husbands' footmen, actors and their dressers; and Holmes and Watson, of course. The razor-sharp, if unpredictable, detective and his duller, but dependable, companion. All the truth laid bare, with proper names attached...
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My friend sat up in his chair by the fire in the cosy sitting room of our cottage with a peculiar clang as his boots hit something on their way from the fender stool to the floor. His straight back and piercing eyes positively forbade me to so much as imagine he might have been asleep in the daytime. He took the copy of the Evening Standard that I thrust into his hands and shook it open with calm deliberation. After a minute or two holding the pages at various distances from his nose he sighed and stretched out his left arm and hand. I dropped his hated, but of late essential, reading-glasses into the waiting palm without comment.
"I presume you refer to this article," he said after a minute or two more. He handled the paper so swiftly that I didn't see how he contrived to bring the stark paragraph to the top and centre of the bundle which he handed back to me so that the headline DIRECT HIT IN CHARING CROSS ROAD:BANK VAULTS BREACHED BY ZEPPELIN RAID made my pulse quicken in alarm all over again.
"My dispatch box, Holmes. The records of all your unpublished cases. They could all be gone, or worse."
"Yes, worse: they could all be safe, and you will try to twist my arm and insist on publishing the story about the time I...you know the one," he finished, darkly.
"You know I gave you my solemn promise about that. I meant to say, suppose the contents of that box are even now blowing up the Strand or floating in the fountains at Trafalgar Square? All the real names and details of your former clients, unedited and unexpurgated. The cormorant, Holmes!"
"Watson, do calm yourself, there's a good fellow." He shifted one leg and reached under his chair, dragging out a familiar, battered tin object. I gasped with joy and relief.
"Brother Mycroft had word that London might see enemy action this week. We took the precaution of removing this for somewhat safer keeping two days ago."
Knees creaking like the worn timepieces they were, I knelt on the rug and worked at the lock with the key hanging from my watch chain. I lifted the lid and yes, everything was there: cabinet ministers and their cormorants, duchesses and their husbands' footmen, actors and their dressers; and Holmes and Watson, of course. The razor-sharp, if unpredictable, detective and his duller, but dependable, companion. All the truth laid bare, with proper names attached...
ART
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hardboiledbaby recorded mainecoon76's story The Relevance of Goodness with cover art by fire_jugglermp3 download: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?38epfx1edw02m1q
m4b download: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?qc8l88x3hqtvgsg
link to full cover art
FIC
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Date: 2012-11-01 07:37 pm (UTC)