The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax: History Repeats

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Title: The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax: History Repeats
Author: gardnerhill                        
Word Count: 60                     
Rating: G
Warning: Relationship postulated.
Summary: They had gotten away at the end, after all. And they have an M.O.

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They escaped, after the horror they inflicted on Lady Frances over her few baubles.

They must have seen the pearl on Watson’s watch-fob, a memento of his first spouse.

I tear through the cemetery; another gathering lowers a too-large coffin into the ground.

If I am too late, no rope will keep me from what I do to those two.

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Too bad Peters and Fraser decided to flee to Australia via ship. Things happen on long sea voyages, especially when you anger a man who has Poseidon on speed-dial.

A week later, Watson's still a bit weak from the chloroform but with a returned appetite, and reads the newspaper. "Oh dear..."