A Study in Scarlet (Serial Edition Cover) — page 83: what you’re looking at

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A STUDY IN SCARLET. "5 tinued, “I saw that the whole case hung upon one point. Fixing her with my eye in a way which I always found effective with women, I asked her at what hour her son returned. ‘““*T do not know,’ she answered. “*Not know P’ “*No; he has a latch-key, and let himself in.’ “* After you went to bed?’ oe Ves.’ ““¢ When did you go to bed ?’ “** About eleven.’ “‘*So your son was gone at least two hours?’ it Yes.’ “** Possibly four or five?’ «6 6 Yes.’ “‘“ What was he doing during that time?” “*T do not know,’ she answered, turning white to her very lips. “Of course, after that there was nothing more to be done. I feund out where Lieutenant Charpentier was, took two officers with me, and arrested him. When I touched him on the shoulder and warned him to come quietly with us, he answered us as bold as brass: ‘I suppose you are arresting me for being concerned in the death of that scoundrel Drebber,’ he said. We had said nothing to him about it, so that his alluding to it had a most suspicious aspect.” “Very,” said Holmes. “He still carried the heavy stick which the mother described him as having with him when he followed Drebber. It was a stout oak cudgel.” S (C@