Between the Lines
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Dog in the Night by MsIzz
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms, Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
19 Apr 2023
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"'My dear chap, I’m overjoyed to see you. Sit down, and tell me how you came alive out of that dreadful chasm.'
- Dr. Watson,
The Adventure of the Empty House, 1984Now tell me, does this sound like a likely phrase to be uttered by a man upon first seeing his closest companion of nigh on a decade, a companion whom he sincerely believed to be dead for the better part of three years, returned miraculously to life?
In this sample as in so much of his famous correspondence, it is the unstated, the circumscribed- the curious incident of the dog in the night, as Watson so eloquently paraphrased- that reveals the underlying, inadmissible truth."
Sherlock reads between Watson's lines, and turns the pen back upon its wielder.
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- Part 1 of Between the Lines