A Study in Scarlet (Serial Edition Cover) — page 162: what you’re looking at

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154 A STUDY IN SCARLET. ing and riding are as natural to me as walking, so I ap. plied at a cab-owner’s office, and soon got employment. I was to bring a certain sum a week to the owner, and whatever was over that I might keep for myself. ‘There was seldom much over, but I managed to scrape along somehow. The hardest job was to learn my way about, for I reckon that of all the mazes that ever were con- trived, this city is the most confusing. I had a map beside me, though, and when once I had spotted the principal hotels and stations, I got on pretty well. “It was some time before I found out where my two gentlemen were living; but I inquired and inquired until at last I dropped across them. ‘They were ata boarding-house at Camberwell, over on the other side of the river. When once I found them out I knew that I had them at my mercy. I had grown my beard, and there was no chance of their recognizing me. I would dog them and follow them until I saw my opportunity. I was determined that they should not escape me again. “They were very near doing it, for all that. Go where they would about London, I was always at their heels. Sometimes I followed them on my cab, and sometimes on foot, but the former was the best, for then they could not get away from me. It was only early in the morning or late at night that I could earn anything so that I began to get behindhand with my employer .S.¢ Gomilcboo