A Study in Scarlet (Serial Edition Cover) — page 62: what you’re looking at

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54 A STUDY IN SCARLET. back for. If we have no other way of catching him, we can always bait our line with the ring. I shall have him, doctor—I’ll lay you two to one that I have him. I must thank you for it all. I might not have gone but for you, and so have missed the finest study I ever came across; a study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn’t we use alittle art jargon? There’s the scarlet thread of murder running through the colorless skein of life, and our duty | is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it. And now for lunch, and then for Norman Neruda. Her attack and her bowing are splendid. What’s that little thing of Chopin’s she plays so magnificently: Tra- ja-la-lira-lira-lay.” Leaning back in the cab, this amateur blood-hound caroled away like a lark, while I meditated upon the many-sidedness of the human mind. GEomicbooks:. c