A Study in Scarlet (Serial Edition Cover) — page 132: what you’re looking at

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124 A STUDY IN SCARLET. stretched out His hand and gathered you into the true fold.” “ As He will all the nations, in His own good time,” said the other, in a nasal voice; “ He grindeth slowly but exceeding small.” | John Ferrier bowed coldly. He had guessed whe his visitors were. ““We have come,” continued Stangerson, “‘ at the ad- vice of our fathers, to solicit the hand of your daughter for whichever of us may seem good to you and to her. As I have but four wives and Brother Drebber here has seven, it appears to me that my claim 1s the stronger one.” “Nay, nay, Brother Stangerson,” cried the other; “the question is not how many wives we have, but how many we can keep. My father has now given over his mills to me, and I am the richer man.” “But my prospects are better,” said the other, warmly. | “When the Lord removes my father, I shall have his tanning-yard and his leather-factory. Then I am your elder, and am higher in the Church.” “Tt will be for the maiden to decide,” rejoined young Drebber, smirking at his own reflection in the glass. “We will leave it all to her decision.” During this dialogue, John Ferrier had stood fuming in the doorway, hardly able to keep his riding-whip from the backs of his two visitors. “‘Look here,” he said, at last, striding up to them, “when my daughter summons you, you can come; but until then, I don’t want to see your faces again.” The two young Mormons stared at him in amaze- Gomichbooks:G