A Study in Scarlet (Serial Edition Cover) — page 72: what you’re looking at

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64 _ A STUDY IN SCARLET. get out of the cab while it was in motion, without either you or the driver seeing her?’’ : ‘‘Old woman be d——d!”’ said Sherlock Holmes, sharply. ‘‘Wewere the old women to be so taken in. It must have been a young man, and an active one, too, besides being an incomparable actor. The get- up was inimitable. He saw that he was followed, no doubt, and used this means of giving me the slip. It shows that the man we are after is not as lonely as I imagited he was, but has friends who are ready to risk something for him. Now, doctor, you are looking done up. Take my advice and turn in.’’ I was certainly feeling very weary, so I obeyed his injunction. I left Holmes seated in front of the smoldering fire, and long into the watches of the night I heard the low, melancholy wailings of his violin, and knew that he was still pondering over the strange problem which he had set himself to un- ravel, Gomilcboo KS (E(O)