A Study in Scarlet (Serial Edition Cover) — page 59: what you’re looking at

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A STUDY IN SCARLET. Sz come to know it, Heaven only knows! Ye sea when I got up to the door, it was so still and so lonesone that I thought I’d be none the worse for some one with me, I ain’t afeard of anything on this side o’ the grave; but I thought that maybe it was him that died o’ the typhoid inspecting the drains what killed him. The thought gave me a kind o’ turn, and I walked back to the gate to see if I could see Murcher’s lantern, but there wasn’t no sign of him nor of any one else.” “There was no one in the street ?” “Not a livin’ soul, sir, nor as much as a dog. Then I pulled myself together and went back and pushed the door open. All was quiet inside, so I went into the room where the light was a-burnin’. There was a can- dle flickerin’ on the mantel-piece—a red wax one—and by its light I saw—” “Yes, I know all that you saw. You walked round the room several times, and you knelt down by the body, and then you walked through and tried the kitchen door, and then—” John Rance sprang to his feet with a frightened face and suspicion in his eyes. “Where was you hid to see all that?” he cried. ‘It seems to me that you knows a deal more than you should.” Holmes laughed, and threw his card across the table to the constable. “Don’t get arresting me for the murder,” he said. “IT am one of the hounds, and not the wolf; Mr. Greg- son or Mr. Lestrade will answer for that. Go on, though. What did you do next?” Gomilchboo