#stoc acd

[travelingwithoutthedoctor]

Wife, what wife? While in stoc and nava Holmes needs to get Watson out of his house in card they are clearly living together. I do think card in misplaced horribly in this timeline.

[materialofonebeing]

On @ummzaksbest’s comment, yes, why does Holmes even invite Watson in The Stock-broker’s Clerk?  Or Boscombe Valley around the same time? Just in case he needs an assistant?

One of the most heart-breaking lines in canon is Watson, years later in Creeping Man, recalling his thought, “Was it for so trivial a question as this that I had been summoned from my work?”  Maybe some would cast The Stock-Broker’s Clerk in that light:  Watson either hadn’t figured out yet that he was Holmes’s habit and someone for Holmes to talk at, or Watson tagged along anyway as the loyal sidekick.  

Alternatively, they missed one another, and Holmes, particularly, didn’t know what to do about it.

Watson might have made the first effort.  After seeing little of Holmes, he had stopped in to 221B in A Scandal in Bohemia.  Watson later would persuade Holmes simply to come to dinner at his house.  But, in the early months after Watson left, Holmes hadn’t figured out how/if they could/should continue a friendship.  Holmes acted tentatively and offered Watson the same thing, his work, which originally had drawn them together.  

After Holmes successfully initiated whisking Watson away for a case, for a while they were inseparable once more. 

[materialofonebeing]

From the beginning of The Stock-Broker’s Clerk.  

[astudyincanon]

For the week of October 16th - October 22nd, we will be tackling

The Adventure of the Stock-Broker’s Clerk (#STOC ACD)

This week’s reading is “The Adventure of the Stock-Broker’s Clerk,” originally published in 1893. At just under 7,500 words, it is one of the shorter stories in the canon.

Feel free to read at your own pace throughout the week. We will be tracking the tags for the story and posting what we find as the week goes on.