A Study in Scarlet, Part II: The G in GPS stands for God

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Story: A Study in Scarlet, Part II
Rating: Gen
Summary: There’s faith and then there’s cartography.
Author’s Note: In which the author feels somewhat vindicated for having once put a porcupine in an English forest. Reportedly, when Sir Arthur was told that he put the Rio Grande very far from where it actually flows, he replied, “These little things happen.”

“Where is that mighty majestic river? Where the legendary Rio Grande? It was said to the right of the Sierra Blanco, but we have passed peak after peak and I see nothing.”
“Where is your faith?”
“But on the map—. Shouldn’t it be somewhere—?”
“Maps? Oh, these little things happen. On to Zion! We shall see it there!”