The Three Gables: Dangerous Bluster

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Canon Story: The Three Gables
Author: godsdaisiechain
Rating: G
Author's Notes: I am glad you were not forced to break his woolly head, Watson. I observed your manoeuvres with the poker. But he is really rather a harmless fellow, a great muscular, foolish, blustering baby, and easily cowed, as you have seen. Or is he?  My first try...

Watson saw, but (as usual) did not observe the truth.

Steve Dixie was far from harmless, his blustering baby ways a careful ruse. In fact, Dixie was among the most dangerous men in London. He had seen the poker maneuver as well, but he, like many, owed Sherlock Holmes a favor, and Sherlock Holmes found him useful enough to protect.

Comments

[debriswoman]

Neatly done:-)
And welcome:-)

[godsdaisiechain.livejournal.com]

Why, thank you. Nifty picture.

[debriswoman]

My pleasure
And thank you

[godsdaisiechain.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. It reminds me of the House of the Seven Gables.

[debriswoman]

I bought that book in Salem a couple of years ago...but haven't read it yet:-p

[godsdaisiechain.livejournal.com]

You're doing better than I did... I went to the House of the Seven Gables, but I just bought a "scarlet letter" t-shirt. No books.

[debriswoman]

Well...if you have worn the T shirt, you have done better than me with the book:-p

[godsdaisiechain.livejournal.com]

Actually, I have been wearing it quite frequently. All the English professors quite like it.

[debriswoman]

Good
And I have just found the book and will take it with me on a pending short trip to the Welsh borders:-)

[godsdaisiechain.livejournal.com]

: )

[laurose8.livejournal.com]

Thanks for a very good explanation. So many Victorians would be so very foolable, I find it most likely. It is a bit overdone, after all.

[godsdaisiechain.livejournal.com]

I so agree that Victorians had a taste for the overly melodramatic. I was also shocked to learn that Conan Doyle wrote this during the 20th century.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Crikey - thanks for joining in and having a go! ^_^

And what an intriguing interpretation... Once again Holmes is keeping poor Watson in the dark about what is really going on. (Holmes did appear to have a great many agents and contacts in the latter part of his career. Sometimes he seemed to be spending more time with them than Watson during cases.) Your story does make a lot of sense: it would be odd that Dixie was hired as a thug when he was so easily cowed. I like the idea that Watson is faithfully reporting what happened, but Dixie and Holmes are both acting out this scene for the benefit of their audience.

[godsdaisiechain.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the warm welcome!

I have to admit that it's (sadly) a very, very current type of interpretation. If my recollections are correct, the clever "other" was a highly dangerous sort of phenomenon that might need to be stamped out in short order... to preserve the monarchy and noblesse oblige and all that sort of thing.

Of course, as I write this, it would make sense for Holmes not to worry about the status quo all that much. He could leave that for Mycroft.

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

As those above have said, a great interpretation.

And welcome - we're delighted to have you with us.

[godsdaisiechain.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I am delighted to be here.

Sunday, November 23, 2014

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[winryweiss.livejournal.com]

Oh I really like this.
Holmes surely had many (not quite innocent) informants running around.

[godsdaisiechain.livejournal.com]

Thanks!!