The Red-Headed League: Whiskey-and-Soda

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Title: The Red-Headed League: Whiskey-and-Soda
Author: gardnerhill                        
Word Count: 60                     
Rating: G
Warning: None
Summary: Just after-case musings.

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“Sometimes,” I said into my drink, “I think it ought not to be a crime to gull the stupid.”

Holmes tsk’ed. “The gulled often have families who suffer; we end the business for them, if for no other reason. Consider, Watson; had Wilson been less idiotic we would have missed this robbery until after the fact.”

“Mm.”

We clinked glasses.

Comments

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Very true. It's often not the gulled who suffer.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Mark Twain and Sam Houston were men who grew up with fathers always trying some get-rich-quick scheme or happily handing over the family savings to some charlatan - and who remember the family's constant state of poverty or want as a result.

[debriswoman]

A fair point:-)

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

"When elephants go to war, it is the grass that suffers." - Some Smart Person

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

I like this very much. Just a quiet post-case exchange of ideas. Lovely.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I like this little undramatic moment.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

I must admit I always feel some sympathy for Jabez Wilson. He is pompous and a bit dim - dismissing Holmes' skills as "nothing in it, after all” and ignoring all alarm bells about his assistant and the Red-Headed League. But it was such a concerted effort at a con from Clay, and Wilson wasn't really being greedy - just hoping to supplement his earnings from his failing business. It could even be argued perhaps he was thinking partly about his employees - making sure he could pay their wages.

It's a lovely domestic moment from you. And I think I'll always be grateful to Wilson's idiocy for giving us that other domestic moment of seeing Holmes and Watson's shared sense of humour ^____^

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Jabez Wilson is pretty much every not-too-bright person suckered into a get-rich-quick scheme - just lucky for him that someone else was to have paid the price.

I'm very fond of small domestic moments. And we do have Wilson to thank for that glorious shared laughter.