ext_12197 ([identity profile] gardnerhill.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] sherlock602017-11-05 12:20 am
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Charles Augustus Milverton: Nature Abhors a Vacuum

Title: Charles Augustus Milverton: Nature Abhors a Vacuum
Author: gardnerhill                        
Word Count: 60                     
Rating: G
Warning: None
Summary: Someone must take his place.

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The word spread fast in the underground, and the time was set.

The day of Milverton’s funeral a cluster of men gathered in a vile Limehouse dogfighting pit.

“You know the rules, you bastards,” growled Sanderson the grave-robber.

“Aye,” said Jack Dickerson, the bull-buggering priest-killer.

Baby-Eating O’Brian grinned. “Last one living…”

“…Is the new Worst Man in London. Now fight!
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[personal profile] alafaye 2017-11-05 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)
True, true.