A Study in Scarlet (Serial Edition Cover) — page 49: what you’re looking at

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A STUDY IN SCARLET. 41 The little man’s eyes sparkled as he spoke, and he was evidently in a state of suppressed exultation at having scored a point against his colleague, “Come here,” he said, bustling back into the room, the atmosphere of which felt cleaner since the removal of its ghastly inmate. ‘‘ Now, stand there!” He struck a match on his boot and held it up against the wall. “Look at that!” he said, triumphantly. I have remarked that the paper had fallen avvay in parts. In this particular corner of the room a large piece had peeled off, leaving a yellow square of coarse plastering. Across this bare space there was scrawled in blood-red letters a single word: RACHE. “What do you think of that?” cried the detective, with the air of a showman exhibiting his show. ‘This was overlooked because it was in the darkest corner of the room, and no one thought of looking there. The murderer has written it with his or her own blood. See this smear where it has trickled down the wall! That disposes of the idea of suicide, anyhow. Why was that corner chosen to write it onP Iwilltell you. See that candle on the mantel-piece. It was lighted at the time, and if it was lighted this corner would be the brightest instead of the darkest portion of the wall.” “And what does it mean, now that you ave found ite” asked Gregson, in a depreciatory voice. “Mean? Why, it means that the writer was going CORNICLIO® Sal