Posted by Alicia on 3/12/2008, 2:53 pm, in reply to "Chapter four part one"
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I go away for one minute and you've got the whole bleeding story up! Ha ha, still great.
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: Chapter 4: In Which Holmes Proposes a Theory
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: Where as the previous day had been one of
: physical labor and dress-up the next was one
: of labor of a different sort; that of the
: mind.
:
: 8:00 in the morning found Holmes, Watson and
: Theodore all sitting around the living room
: table under the shelter of a now intact
: ceiling, Theodore in a ‘proper’ set of
: clothes that Holmes had dug out of his box
: of disguises. He claimed that they had once
: belonged to the pageboy, Billy, who had
: outgrown them a while back.
:
: They fit quite well, Billie had been, by all
: accounts, of a similar build to Theodore,
: and it gave him a chance blend into the
: crowd. Holmes had also furnished him with a
: pair of slightly worn spats, their purpose
: being to hide the futuristic logo, which
: graced the outer side of each of Theodore’s
: shoes. Sadly, the shoes being of a white
: synthetic material the spats did not do as
: good a job of concealing them as the
: detective would have liked, but they would
: have to do.
:
: The subject of discussion was to see if they
: could figure out what exactly had triggered
: Theodore’s seemingly unexplainable time
: traveling episode.
:
: They would have acted sooner had not both
: Watson and Mrs. Hudson been averse to
: tripping over bits of ceiling all day, you
: could tell though, that Holmes had never
: forgotten the more pressing problem at hand
: for an instant.
:
: “You say that you - being unable to make out
: the appearance of your attackers in the
: fading light - could only tell that the
: taller of the two - who had a deep British
: sounding voice - was evidently the leader.
: And the shorter - of French heritage -
: seemed to be continually referring to some
: sort of device or devices which was
: informing him of certain dates and events?”
:
: “Yes sir, as near as I could make out”
: Theodore agreed nodding his head
:
: “And from what you tell me of their
: conversation they knew in advance of your
: presence in that tree?”
:
: “Yes sir”
:
: “Not that I am doubting your word, Mr.
: Trent, but did anyone else see them, Your
: parents or brother perhaps?”
:
: All of a sudden, Theodore felt awful, of
: course! How could he have been so selfish
: as to forget? His poor mother and father
: were probably going out of there minds with
: worry and he was here, having the time of
: his life, all his dreams coming true,
: meanwhile his parents probably thought their
: son to be dead.
:
: Bending his head in shame, he could only
: manage a small “no.”
:
: The detective seemed to notice the change in
: his subject’s body language but thankfully
: said nothing about it. No doubt picking up
: on the fact that Theodore would prefer to
: become permanently invisible at that
: particular moment.
:
: “Well, with the present evidentiary support
: one must give in to surmise, it would seem
: that your two friends knew of your arrival
: in their century which, from what I gather,
: seems to be your next destination. And
: using some futuristic method, foreign even
: to you Mr. Trent, traveled back in time to
: see to it that your arrival should be
: indefinitely postponed.
:
: “Obviously, upon arriving in this century
: you set in motion a chain of events. The
: result of which is undesirable to them.
: Whether it was fated that they start you on
: your way or it was a simple case of
: coincidence re-”
:
: “But Holmes” Watson interrupted “have you
: not said to me on more then one occasion
: that you do not believe in coincidences?”
:
: “Really Watson you do have a remarkable
: Memory.” Holmes replied dryly “however in
: this case I am forced to concede that the
: boy’s teleportation may indeed have been the
: result of a coincidence although I am myself
: averse to such a theory, may I now
: continue?”
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