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Sherlock Holmes Behind the Scenes, pt 12

Added 2023-01-11 09:04:18 +0000 UTC

I really wanted to somehow include Jinx as Wiggins, but I just couldn't fit him in my version. (And I was time-limited; I wanted the story to finish up just before Christmas.)

Doc.

Dialogue:

(Holmes creeping up on the curtain. He plunges his free hand into it)
Holmes: AHA! COME OUT, YOU VILLAIN!
(He drags out a child <Jinx> by the collar, the child is frightened)
Wiggins: Mister 'Omes! Mister 'Omes! It's me--Wiggins! O' th' Baker Street Irregulars!

(A second ragamuffin child comes out behind him)
Kasi: I wanted to call us "Th' Speckled Band" but 'ee wouldn't 'ave it!
Wiggins (frowning): Well, we ain't all got spots, do we now?
Holmes: WIGGINS! Focus! ... What news do you bring me?
Wiggins (saluting): Nuffin', Sir.

Holmes: "Nothing?"
Wiggins: No Sir. We bin wotchin' va docks an' va railway stations, an we ain't seem nobody fittin' va d'scription you gived us.
Holmes: Curiouser and curiouser. So it would seem our thief is sitting on the plans...but why?

(I can't draw Kasi at all. You can dress her either as a girl, like Alice in Wonderland, or in boy's clothes, like a paperboy with a big floppy hat. I initially thought that she would be Irene's daughter and would thus be dressed better, but that doesn't really fit the narrative at all. Her appearance is really just a cameo and to use a cute little joke that no one will get.)