A Study in Scarlet (Serial Edition Cover) — page 166: what you’re looking at

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158 @ STUDY IN SCARLET. quarter of an hour or more, when suddenly there came a noise like people struggling inside the house. Next moment the door was flung open and two men appeared, ene of whom was Drebber, and the other was a young chap whom I had never seen before. ‘This fellow had Drebber by the collar, and when they came to the head of the steps he gave him a shove and a kick which sent him half across the road. ‘You hound!’ he cried, shak- ing his stick at him, ‘I’ll teach you to insult an honest girl!’ He was so hot that I think he would have thrashed Drebber with his cudgel, only that the cur staggered away down the road as fast as his legs would carry him. He ran as far as the corner, and then, see- ing my cab, he hailed me and jumped in. ‘ Dnve me to Halliday’s Private Hotel,’ said he. “When I had him fairly inside my cab my heart jumped so with joy that I feared lest at this last moment my aneurism might go wrong. I drove along slowly, weighing in my own mind what it was best todo. I might take him right out into the country, and there in some deserted lane have my last interview with him. I ‘had almost decided upon this, when he solved the prob- lem for me. The craze for drink had seized him again, © and he ordered me to pull up outside a gin palace. He went in, leaving word that I should wait for him. There he remained until closing time, and when he came Gomicbooks-¢ =) ‘