A Study in Scarlet (Serial Edition Cover) — page 142: what you’re looking at

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134 4 STUDY IN SCARLET. corner, screened with rocks, where the faithful animals had been picketed. ‘The girl was placed upon the mule, and old Ferrier upon one of the horses, with his money- bag, while Jefferson Hope led the other along the pre- cipitous and dangerous paths. It was a bewildering route for any one who was not accustomed to face Nature in her wildest moods. On the one side a great crag towered up a thousand feet or more, black, stern, and menacing, with long basaltic columns upon his rugged surface like the ribs of some petrified monster. On the other hand, a wild chaos of bowlders and détris made all advance impossible. Be- tween the two ran the irregular track, so narrow in places that they had to travel in Indian file, and so rough that only practiced riders could have traversed it at all. Yet, in spite of all dangers and difficulties, the hearts of the fugitives were light within them, for every step increased the distance between them and the terrible despotism from which they were flying. They soon had a proof, however, that they were still within the jurisdiction of the Saints. ‘They had reached the very wildest and most desolate portion of the pass, when the girl gave a startled cry, and pointed upward. On a rock which overlooked the track, showing out dark and plain against the sky, there stood a solitary sentinel. He saw them as soon as they perceived him, and his military challenge of “Who goes there P” rang through the silent ravine. “Travelers for Nevada,” said Jefferson Hope, with his hand upon the rifle which hung by his saddle. They could see the lonely watcher fingering his gun, Eomichbooks:, Gc