A Study in Scarlet (Serial Edition Cover) — page 165: what you’re looking at

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A STUDY IN SCARLET. 127 had found him out. It chanced that some days before a gentleman who had been engaged in looking over some houses in the Brixton Road had dropped the key of one of them in my carriage. It was claimed that Same evening and returned; but in the interval I had taken a molding of it, and had a duplicate constructed. By means of this I had access to at least one spot in this great city where I could rely upon being free from interruption. How to get Drebber to that house was the difficult problem which I had now to solve. ‘He walked down the road and went into one or two liquor-shops, staying for nearly half an hour in the last of them. When he came out he staggered in his walk, and was evidently pretty well on. There was a hansom just in front of me, and he hailed it. . I followed it so close that the nose of my horse was within a yard of his driver the whole way. We rattled across Water- loo Bridge and through miles of streets, until, to my as- tonishment, we found ourselves back in the terrace in which he had boarded. I could not imagine what his intention was in returning there; but I went on and pulled up my cab a hundred yards or so from the house. He entered it and his hansom drove away. Give mea glass of water, if you please. My mouth gets dry with the talking.” I handed him the glass, and he drank it down. “That’s better,” he said. “Well, I waited for @ GoOmilcboo Hal