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"Uh, right" Though I was pretty sure it was called roller-skating, and that I’d rather die before doing it "I heard you say ‘no school tuition,’ though We can’t afford to send Shelby to Sherringford Not on our own And it’s no secret any my bill"

His smile faded "That doesn’t apply to your fah anything, Jamie, because I know he’d never ask me toIt doesn’t matter Listen, don’t ever think you’ll be a casualty in this war You won’t be I’ll make sure of it"

An invisible ith invisible blood Or not invisible--just not our own, not yet Lee Dobson had been a casualty already, and I’d co one myself "How did this even start?" I asked hi ust Moriarty anyway? I knoas a publicity stunt or whatever, but if you all hated each other so much, ould Holmes’s parents take that risk?"

"It’s not a short story, you know"

I laughed "I mean, I don’t kno I’ll fit it intoavoided" And it was true What else was I going to do this afternoon? I ht as well fill in some of the blanks that Holoing toto need some tea"

Ten minutes and one pot of Earl Grey later, ere settled back onto the sofa

Somewhere in the distance, I heard the rush of the sea "You’re familiar with Sherlock Holmes’s run-ins with Professor Moriarty, aren’t you? Sherlock took down a number of ‘notorious’ ht bastard Every other criland paid him protection ether into a web And Holmes was able to deduce the spider from that web" Absently, he rubbed at his temple "Stop me if you’ve heard this before"

"I’ve heard it before," I said, blowing on my tea Half the world had heard it before Sherlock Holainst the professor; Holreat-great-great-grandfather on a hill overlooking a waterfall, wondering if his best friend and partner had died in its depths Both Holood, and the man who’d come back to Baker Street had done so only years later, after eradicating the last of the crients

Or so the story went

"When I was a child, I never understood the fixation on Moriarty," Leander was saying "He’s never ood doctor’s stories, not until ‘The Final Problem,’ where it’s like he was invented to explain all these fabulously strange criain And you know, growing up, our relationship with that faetic, really They didn’t have the best reputation--being cursed with an infamous last name will do that to you--but sins of the father, and so on They weren’t the Napoleons of crio?"

Leander ran a hand over his slicked-back hair "Poorly," he admitted "He told ht have been at peace when this August business started, but we’d spent thewith them, one way or another"

"We did?" I said, then corrected myself "You did?" From what I understood, the Watsonstheir spectacular fortune at cards

"Forgivehis tea, "but 1918 Fiona Moriarty, dressed as aThe costus tied around her waist for bulk Apparently it was splendid After spending twoup the athering data, she quits her job Teeks later, she gets herself arrested for robbing a bank in broad daylight, disguised as a different ht, she has escorted twenty prisoners out of Sing Sing through a tunnel she’d spent the last ten days digging A tunnel that went under the Hudson River"

I let out a lohistle "Did she get aith it?"

He grinned "Tunnels have two openings, don’t they? My great-grandfather had built a bonfire at the exit Those poor prisoners all ran yelling back to their cells Thought they’d found their freedomfound lots of smoke, instead And she was put behind bars herself Her scheood five of those prisoners were her father’s lieutenants Men who had helped raise her Who, after her father’s death, escaped to A arm of Sherlock Holets you in the end"

He had on his quoting voice for that part "You can’t believe that," I said

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