Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson-The Early Adventures II by David Marcum (ed)

Author:David Marcum (ed) [Marcum, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: detective, Sherlock Holmes, mystery, victoriana, anthology
ISBN: 9781710669978
Amazon: 1710669977
Publisher: Belanger Books
Published: 2019-11-23T00:00:00+00:00

Holmes had been silent upon our return that night, and he was already gone the next morning when I came down for breakfast. I decided to take myself off to Barts, both to offer my professional services, and to get a sense of what was occurring there following the reported violent death of Dr. Smallwood.

Surprisingly, while there were some conversations held in hallways by small private clusters of two or three people, the reaction was not what I would have expected. Now, having the benefit of Holmes’s declaration that the man wasn’t as well thought of as I’d believed, I could see that, while curious as to the nature of the event itself, no one appeared to miss Smallwood very much, and there was no sense of grief. How sad, I thought, when the absence of a life, by violent means as far as any of these people knew, could provoke no stronger reaction. I’d once heard the death of a certain ineffectual soldier callously described as having no made no more difference than that of a hole left in the ocean when a man removes his hand from it, and Smallwood’s seeming death appeared to matter about as much. Schedules were rearranged, a certain curiosity was evinced, and as time passed, it would simply be another anecdote among many in the life of the hospital – the friendless doctor who was killed in his rooms.

Of course, I thought, it was just barely possible that someone at the hospital knew more than they revealed, but I believed that Smallwood’s enemy wasn’t here. After all, he had walked these halls with cocky confidence, fearing nothing. It was at his modest home, where he was alone, that he had felt the need to construct his defenses.

I didn’t see Holmes that night, but the next day, when I was again back at Barts, I observed him down a long hallway, conversing with Sir James Wheeler, a man deeply involved with the hospital’s administration. Even as I watched, they turned and went into one of the offices. I had my own responsibilities and went a different way.

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