A Study in Scarlet (Serial Edition Cover) — page 128: what you’re looking at

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i20 A STUDY LN SCARLET, He was passing through the door, when he turned, with flushed face and flashing eyes. “It were better for you, John Ferrier,” he thundered, “that you and she were now lying blanched skeletons upon the Sierra Blanco, than that you should put your | weak wills against the orders of the Holy Four!” With a threatening gesture of his hand he turned from the door, and Ferrier heard his heavy step scrunch- ing along the shingly path. He was still sitting with his elbows upon his knees, considering how he should broach the matter to his daughter, when a soft hand was laid upon his, and looking up, he saw her standing beside him. One glance at her pale, frightened face showed him that she had heard what had passed. “T could not help it,” she said, in answer to his look, “ His voice rang through the house. Oh, father, father, what shall we dop” “Don’t you scare yourself,” he answered, drawing y y § her to him, and passing his broad, rough hand caress- ingly over her chestnut hair. ‘“ We'll fix it up somehow or another. You don’t find your fancy kind o’ lessening for this chap, do you? ” A sob and a squeeze of his hand was her only an- swer. “No; of course not. I shouldn’t care to hear you say you did. He’s a likely lad, and he’s a Christian, which is more than these folk here, in spite o’ all their praying and preaching. There’s a party stcrting for Nevada to-morrow, and I’ll manage to send him a mes- sage jetting him know the hole we arein. If J know Gomicbooks.¢