Classic Sherlock Holmes fanworks exchange

I enjoyed this so much! It was in many ways a deeply tragic story, but I thought the details of the case -- especially Hodges's plan of murdering the one true inheritor and inventing a false one to keep the estate tied up in the courts -- were very ingenious. The way that you interwove the Arthurian legends with both the case and with de Leighton's dementia was very well done. That confused moment during the attack on Watson where he sees a sort of double image of the book's illustration just as the Professor strikes his last blow for justice was a great moment. This story was very clever, and very compassionate toward the Professor. Lovely.