A Study in Scarlet (Serial Edition Cover) — page 91: what you’re looking at

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A STUDY IN SCARLET. 83 “Give them here,” said Holmes. “Now, doctor,” turning to me, “are those ordinary pills ?” They certainly were not. They were of a pearly gray color, small, round, and almost transparent, against the light. | : “From their lightness and transparency, I should imagine that they are soluble in water,’ I remarked. “Precisely so,” answered Holmes. “Now would you mind going down and fetching that poor little devil of a terrier which has been bad so long, and which the land- lady wanted you to put out of its pain yesterday 2” I went downstairs and carried the dog upstairs In my arms. Its labored breathing and glazing eye showed that it was not far fromits end. Indeed, its snow-white muzzle proclaimed that it had already exceeded the usual term of canine existence. I placed 1t upon a cushion on the rug. “T will now cut one of these pills in two,” said Holmes, and drawing his penknife, he suited the action to the word. “One half we return into the box for future purposes. The other half I will place in this | wine-glass, in which is a teaspoonful of water. You perceive that our friend, the doctor, is right, and that it readily dissolves.” : “This may be very interesting,” said Lestrade, in the injured tone of one who suspects that he is being laughed at. “I cannot see, however, what it has to do with the death of Mr. Joseph Stangerson.” “Patience, my friend, patience! You will find in time that it has everything to do with it. I shall now add a little milk to make the mixture palatable, and on GOMmicdooks (C©)