Case #29: Video

[19centconstable]

[It's an extreme close up of a Victorian constable! George has accidentally turned the camera on himself while picking up his communicator in an attempt to figure out what the strange device is. He looks a little older; a little stockier, because no one escapes the ravages of aging, and 1898 has been kind of a stressful year, what with all of the meth, and Draculas, and outwitting the American government. All of the brass on his uniform is also particularly shiny, and he's wearing a pair of white dress gloves and an expression of general confusion.

And then you can see it slowly dawn on him. And then there's a dizzying shot of the floor flying past as George hurries to make sure that...

Yes. The toilette remains.]

Oh my goodness I'm back.

[There's the sound of someone flopping back onto a bed, and a close up of a quilt. The quilt has the spotlight for a good few minutes, until George remembers the communicator is still running. Normal view!]

Could anybody tell me when it is here?

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[what_ho_jeeves]

As a matter of fact it-- [The penny drops.] Oh. [And he sheepishly winds his watch.] I think it might not actually be quarter til one after all.

But enough about the time, congratulations Georgie! Who's the lucky girl?

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

Ah.

Oh, no, it wasn't my wedding. There isn't any...lucky girl.

[what_ho_jeeves]

Well, that's all right, then. I always thought that weddings were quite a lot more enjoyable when I wasn't the one being dragged down the aisle. And I'm sure you made an excellent Best Man. [Bertie will just keep making assumptions about George's role in the wedding. If he does it long enough, eventually he's bound to get it right.]

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

It wasn't Detective Murdoch's wedding either. It was terrible. Dr. Ogden...she's married someone else. And we all kept waiting for the Detective to show up and object and he didn't, but he had to have wanted to, because R-...Miss Ogden and I found the ring he had meant for Dr. Ogden, and a letter expressing his feelings, which, really, we could have guessed at without reading any sorts of secret letters, which we didn't mean to read, by the way, I just needed a new pen, and then Ruby put the ring down her...well I couldn't go after it.

And someone tried to frame Detective Murdoch for murder, and I may have missed my chance with two different young ladies, and things really haven't been very good at all. Someone took Higgins hostage again.

I did write a book, though.

[what_ho_jeeves]

[Bertie listens with a puzzled frown, shakes or nods his head at all the appropriate moments.]

Let's see if I've got this straight. This beazel you know married a bird who isn't the bird she's supposed to marry, who is your detective, because he wrote a letter that she didn't receive. Good lord, it's a thorny problem if ever I saw one. Jeeves could solve it in a thrice, if only he were here.

The book is excellent news though, Georgie! Mind if I cast my eyes over it?

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

More or less. I do wish your Mr. Jeeves had been there.

Of course. It's an adventure novel. It's got mystery, and romance, and mummies, and Queen Elizabeth gets locked in a bank vault. ...I'm not very good at explaining it.

[what_ho_jeeves]

Jeeves is indeed a wonder.

Speaking of wonders, your book sounds absolutely corking. Just the sort of thing I've been looking for.

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

Really?!? I think so too. Higgins called it nonsense, but I think he's just jealous because I didn't write him into it.