A Study in Scarlet (Serial Edition Cover) — page 86: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER VIL LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS, THE intelligence with which Lestrade greeted us was sO momentous and so unexpected that we were all three fairly dumfounded. Gregson sprang out of his chair and upset the remainder of his whisky and water. I stared in silence at Sherlock Holmes, whose lips were compressed and his brows drawn down over his eyes. “‘Stangerson, too!” he muttered. ‘‘The plot thickens.” “It was quite thick enough before,” grumbled Les- trade, taking a chair. ‘I seem to have dropped into a sort of council of war.” “ Are you—are you sure of this piece of intelligence? ” stammered Gregson. “T have just come from his room,” said Lestrade, ‘“‘T was the first to discover what had occurred.” “ We have been hearing Gregson’s view of the matter,” Holmes observed. ‘ Would you mind letting us know what you have seen and done? ” “TI have no objection,” Lestrade answered, seating himself. “I freely confess that I was of the opinion that Stangerson was concerned in the death of Drebber. This fresh development has shown me that I was com- pletely mistaken. Full of the one idea, I set myself 78 Gomicbooks.¢