The Sign of the Four: The Mudlark's Tale

[kestrel337.livejournal.com]

Canon Story: The Sign of the Four (chap 7-12)
Title: The Mudlark’s Tale
Author: Kestrel337
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Author's Notes:

He said it was a ruby. I laughed. How’d a ruby get here?

“Stole,” he said, “and throwed away before they caught ‘im. We’ll sell it, we will, and eat for days!”

“Just a piece o’ glass,” I told him. “You ain’t never found no ruby.”

But Ol’ Wat, he said diff’rent. Bought it right quick. We split the take.

Comments

[laurose8.livejournal.com]

Thanks for sharing this good consequence with us. The mudlark's voice is first rate!

[kestrel337.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[tripleransom.livejournal.com]

Cool idea! He deserved the luck - it was a hard life.

[kestrel337.livejournal.com]

It was indeed. I wonder about those 'invisible' people, sometimes.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

What a great idea ^^ After the deaths, double-crossing and miserly hoarding in the jewels' history, it's nice to see two people in desperate need getting a bit of money out of one of them. And as laurose8 says - wonderful narrator's voice ^^

[kestrel337.livejournal.com]

Have to admit, I considered carrying on their 'curse', but couldn't make that level of betrayal happen within the word limit. So I turned it on it's head!

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Lovely to read a different take on the story.

[kestrel337.livejournal.com]

Well, that's me. My teachers always said I was the one with 'the other idea'.

[tardisjournal.livejournal.com]

Though "The Sign of Four" ended with loss of the jewels as far as Smallwood, Holmes and Wason were concerned, the story of the jewels goes on! I loved seeing this glimpse of what happened to one of them.

[kestrel337.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you enjoyed it.

re: The Mudlark’s Tale

[vaysh]

You wrote the perfect ending for SIGN, after we leave Sherlock Holmes with his cocaine-bottle. The mudlark is such a deserving finder of the ruby. A wonderful take from the novel, and brilliantly executed in 60 words – language, dialogue, rhythm. Wow.