A Study in Scarlet (Serial Edition Cover) — page 164: what you’re looking at

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156 A STUDY IN SCARLET. pleased than otherwise. I got so close to them in the bustle that I could hear every word that passed between them. Drebber said that he had a little business of his own to do, and that if the other would wait for him he would soon rejoin him. His companion remonstrated with him, and reminded him that they had resolved to stick together. Drebber answered that the matter was a delicate one, and that he must go alone. I could not catch what Stangerson said to that, but the other burst out swearing, and reminded him that he was nothing more than his paid servant, and that he must not pre- sume to dictate to him. On that the secretary gave it up as a bad job, and simply bargained with him that if he missed the last train he should rejoin him at Halli- day’s Private Hotel, to which Drebber answered that he would be back on the platform before eleven, and» made his way out of the station. “The moment for which I had waited so long had at last come. I had my enemies within my power. To. gether they could protect each other, but singly they were at my mercy. I did not act, however, with undue precipitation. My plans were alreac_> formed. There is no Satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender hag time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retris bution had come upon him. I had my plans arranged by which ¥ should have the opportunity of making the man who had wronged me understand that his old sim 2i “is ¢- . “ . = ee) anne Se a .* ee Ge =e” So as’ (SO) NACE JOO