sherlock60 | The Reigate Puzzle: Ankle-Deep

Title: Ankle-Deep
Canon Story: The Reigate Puzzle
Rating: Gen
Summary: Somewhere in Lyons, two women feel Mrs. Hudson's pain.
Author's Note: ...his room was literally ankle-deep with congratulatory telegrams...

The pair stood in the doorway.
“Mon Dieu! What has he done to the room?” cried the first.
“Heureusement the mustachioed one convinced him to go home!” exclaimed the second.
“Are those bullet holes?”
“These tobacco stains, will they ever be washed out?”
“Better to burn those curtains and these,” she said, attacking the paper-strewn floor with a broom, “too!”