A Study in Scarlet (Serial Edition Cover) — page 157: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN H. WATSON, M.D. Our prisoner’s furious resistance did not apparently indicate any ferocity in his disposition toward ourselves, for on finding himself powerless he smiled in an affable manner, and expressed his hopes that he had not hurt any of us in the scuffle. “T guess you're going to take me to the police-station,” he remarked to Sherlock Holmes. ‘‘ My cab’s at the door. If you'll loose my legs I’ll walk down toit. I’m not so light to lift as I used to be.” Gregson and Lestrade exchanged glances as if they thought this proposition rather a bold one; but Holmes at once took the prisoner at his word, and loosened the towel which he had bound round his ankles. He rose and stretched his legs, as though to assure himself that they were free once more. I remember that I thought to myself, as I eyed him, that I had seldom seen a more powerfully built man; and his dark, sunburned face bore an expression of determination and energy which was as formidable as his personal strength. 149 Gomiilechboo