The Naval Treaty in Clerihews

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Canon Story: The Naval Treaty
Author: mundungus42
Rating: G

Lord Holdhurst
Was the worst-
Risking European despotism
Indulging in a spot of nepotism.

Poor old Tadpole:
Found copying a precious scroll
To be sublimely soporific.
Security was not terrific.

The doughty, sleepy Commissaire;
Whose lady vanished into air,
And set the Yard's suspicions blaring
(Fishy wife was a red herring).

Miss Anna Harrison, soon-to-be-Phelps,
Undertook some dictation and various helps.
Holmes gave her the task of unlocking the door
Precluding the ripping-up of the whole floor.

Brother Joe,
Was too slow
To move his precious booty
Before his sister went on duty.

Who told Joe Harrison, the villain,
Of documents whose guard was illin'?
The theft would be thwarted if Phelps had been hearty;
Was it Holdhurst? Or Mycroft? Perhaps Moriarty?