A Study in Scarlet (Serial Edition Cover) — page 116: what you’re looking at

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x03 A STUDY IN SCARLET. sisted her adopted father in all his undertakings. The keen air of the mountains and the balsamic odor of the pine-trees took the place of nurse and mother to the young girl As year succeeded to year she grew taller and stronger, her cheek more ruddy, and her step more elastic. Many a wayfarer upon the high-road which ran by Ferrier’s farm felt long-forgotten thoughts revive in his mind as he watched her lithe, girlish figure tripping through the wheat-fields, or met her mounted upon her father’s mustang, and managing it with all the ease and grace of a true child of the West. So the bud Dlos- somed into a flower, and the year which saw her father the richest of the farmers left her as fair a specimen of American girlhood as could be found in the whole Pa- cific slope. It was not the father, however, who first discovered that the child had developed into the woman. It sel- dom is in such cases. ‘That mysterious change is too subtle and too gradual to be measured by dates. Least of all does the maiden herself know it until the tone of a voice or the touch of a hand sets her heart thrilling within her, and she learns, with a mixture of pride and of fear, that a new and a larger nature has awakened within her. There are few who cannot recall that day and re- member the one little incident which heralded the dawn of a new life. In the case of Lucy Ferrier the occasion was serious enough in itself, apart from its future influ ence on her destiny and that of many besides. It was a warm June morning, and the Latter-Day Saints were as busy as the bees whose hive they have chosen for theiremblem. In the fields and 1n the streets Gomilcboo