A Study in Scarlet (Serial Edition Cover) — page 120: what you’re looking at

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112 A STUDY IN SCARLET. Young Jefferson Hope rode on with his companions, gloomy and taciturn. He and they had been among the Nevada Mountains prospecting for silver, and were ~ returning to Salt Lake City in the hope of raising capi- tal enough to work some lodes which they had discov. ered. He had been as keen as any of them upon the business until this sudden incident had drawn his thoughts into another channel. ‘The sight of the fair young girl, as frank and wholesome as the Sierra breezes, had stirred — his volcanic, untamed heart to its very depths. When she had vanished from his sight, he realized that a crisis had come in his life, and that neither silver speculations nor any other questions could ever be of such impor- tance to him as this new and all-absorbing one. The love which_had sprung up in his heart was not the sud- den, changeable fancy of a boy, but rather the wild, fierce passion of a man of strong will and imperious temper. He had been accustomed to succeed in all that he undertook. Heswore in his heart he would not fail in this if human effort and human perseverance could render him successful. He called on John Fervicr that night, and many times again, until his face was a familiar one at the farm- house. John, cooped up in the valley, and absorbed in his work, had little chance of learning the news of the outside world during the last twelve years. All this Jefferson Hope was able to tell him, and in a style which interested Lucy as well as her father. He had been a pioneer in California, and could narrate many a strangé tale of fortunes made and fortunes lost in those wild; haleyon days. He had been a scout, too, and a trap Gomicbooks:. Gc