A Study in Scarlet (Serial Edition Cover) — page 121: what you’re looking at

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A STUDY IN SCARLET. 113 per, a silver explorer, and aranchman. Wherever stir. ring ~dventures were to be had, Jefferson Hope had been there in search of them. He soon became a favorite with the old farmer, who spoke eloquently of his virtues. On such occasions Lucy was silent, but her blushing cheek and her bright, happy eyes showed only too clearly that her young heart was no longer her own. Her honest father may not have observed these symptoms, but they were assuredly not thrown away upon the man who had won her affections. - It was a summer evening when he came galloping down the road and pulled up at the gate. She was at the doorway, and came down to meet him. He threw the bridle over the fence and strode up the pathway. “T am off, Lucy,” he said, taking her two hands in his, and gazing tenderly down into her face; “I won't ask you to come with me now, but will you be ready te come when I am here again?” “ And when will that be?” she asked, blushing and laughing. “A couple of months at the outside. I will come and claim you then, my darling. There’s no one who can stand between us.” “ And how about father?” she asked. “He has given his consent, provided we get these mines working all right. I have no fear on that head.” “Oh, well, of course, if you and father have arranged it all, there’s no more to be caid,” she whispered, with her cheek against his broad breast. “Thank God!” he said, hoarsely, stooping and kiss- ing her. “It is settled then. The longer I stay the CORNIELOOOKS