The Second Stain: The Unfair Sex

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Canon Story: The Second Stain
Title: The Unfair Sex
Author: Mary Sutherland
Rating: PG-13


Watson believed "the most lovely woman in London"; I did not. A Duke's daughter and a cabinet minster's wife could not conceivably be so innocent about politics. Lady Hilda had been about to run off with Eduardo Lucas, taking the letter as her dowry, when his wife intervened. Yet I held my tongue rather than destroy Trelawney Hope's marriage myself.

SECO: Permission

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Canon Story: The Second Stain
Title: Permission
Author: Chess Ka
Rating: G

"I at last succeeded in obtaining his consent that a carefully-guarded account of the incident should at last be laid before the public..."

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“Oh, if you must.”

I jumped, having been moments from slipping into a doze. Holmes glanced across at me from his armchair in front of the fire. He was perusing the latest Strand.

“I'm sorry?”

“If you must write more of your romantic stories, Watson, you may. It would be better than this tawdry rubbish, after all.”