A Study in Scarlet (Serial Edition Cover) — page 161: what you’re looking at

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A STUDY tN SCARLET. 153 the death of two human beings—a father and a daugh- ter—-and that they had, therefore, forfeited their own lives. After the lapse of time that has passed since their crime, it was impossible for me to secure a conviction against them in any court. I knew of their guilt, though, and I determined that I should be judge, jury, and ex- ecutioner all rolled into one. You’d have done the same, if you have any manhood in you, if you had been in my place. “That girl that I spoke of was to have married me twenty years ago. She was forced into marrying that same Drebber, and broke her heart over it. I took the marriage-ring from her dead finger, and I vowed that his dying eyes should rest upon that very ring, and that his last thoughts should be of the crime for which he was punished. I have carried it about with me, and have foHowed him and his accomplice over two conti- nents until I caught them. They thought to tire me out, but they could not do it. If I die to-morrow, as is likely enough, I die knowing that my work in this world is done, and well done. They have perished, and by my hand. There is nothing left for me to hope for or to desire. “They were rich, and I was poor, so that it was no easy matter for me to follow them. When I got to London my pocket was about empty, and J found that I must turn my hand to something for my living. Driv Eomicboo