A Study in Scarlet (Serial Edition Cover) — page 172: what you’re looking at

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264 “ STUDY IN SCARLET. boldly up to the house—for I was ready to dare any- thing rather than lose the rmg. When I arrived there I walked right into the arms of a police officer who was coming out, and only managed to disarm his suspicions by pretending to be hopelessly drunk. “That was how Enoch Drebber came to his end. All I had to do then was to do as much for Stangerson, and so pay off John Ferrier’s debt. I knew that he was staying at Halliday’s Private Hotel, and I hung about all day, but he never came out. I fancy that he sus- pected something when Drebber failed to put in an ap- pearance. He was cunning, was Stangerson, and always on his guard. If he thought he could keep me off by staying 1n-doors he was very much mistaken. I soon found out which was the window of his bedroom, and — early next morning I took advantage of some ladders which were lying in the lane behind the hotel, and se made my way into his room in the gray of thedawn. I woke him up, and told him that the hour had come when he was to answer for the life he had taken so long before. I described Drebber’s death to him, and I gave him the same choice of the poisoned pills. Instead of grasping at the chance of safety which that offered him, he sprung from his bed and flew at my throat. In self- defense I stabbed him to the heart. It would have been the same in any case, for Providence weuld never have al- lowed his guilty hand to pick out anything but the poison. GOR G JOO <SEGom