The Reigate Puzzle: Inspiration

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Canon: The Reigate Puzzle/Squires (REIG)
Title: Inspiration
Author: ennui_enigma
Rating: G
POV: Colonel Hayter
A/N: Prompted by the following sentence. Hayter was a fine old soldier who had seen much of the world, and he soon found, as I had expected, that Holmes and he had much in common.

What a curious fellow Watson’s found. He called himself a 'stormy petrel'. The inspector muttered that his methods were mad. Yet he managed to deduce the solution to William’s murder from a peculiar theft, scrap of paper, and the p’s and g’s of a note. Fascinating! My life in the country is dull. It’s time I travel the world again.