A Study in Scarlet (Serial Edition Cover) — page 168: what you’re looking at

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«60 ad STUDY IN SCARLET. “Tt was nearer one than twelve, and a wild, bleak night, blowing hard and raining in torrents. Dismal as it was outside, I was glad within—so glad that I could have shouted out from pure exultation. If any of you gentlemen have ever pined for a thing and longed for it during twenty long years, and then suddenly found it within your reach, you would understand my feelings. I lighted a cigar and puffed at it to steady my nerves, but my hands were trembling, and my temples throbbing with excitement. As I drove, I could see old John Ferrier and sweet Lucy looking at me out of the dark- ness and smiling at me, just as plain as I see you all in this room. All the way they were ahead of me, one on each side of the horse, until I pulled ne at the house in the Brixton Road. “There was not a soul to be seen, nor a sound to be heard, except the dripping of the rain. When I looked m at the window, I found Drebber all huddled together in a drunken sleep. I shook him by the arm, ‘It’s time to go out,’ I said. “* All right, cabby,’ said he. ‘I suppose he thought we had come to the hotel that he had mentioned, for he got out without another word and followed me down the garden. I kad to walk be- side him to keep him steady, for he was still a little top- heavy. When we came to the door I opened iteand led him into the front room. I give you my word that, all a . . ~ Tos “ Gomicboo e A . —_ ee a Oe OCU a ee Os On