A Study in Scarlet (Serial Edition Cover) — page 181: what you’re looking at

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A STUDY IN SCARLED. 179 had there been any one in charge of it. Where, then, could the driver be, unless he were inside the house? Again, it is absurd to suppose that any sane man would Carry out a deliberate crime under the very eyes, as it were, of a third person, who was sure to betray him. Lastly, supposing one man wished to dog another through London, what better means could he adopt than to turn cab-driver? All these considerations led me to the irre- sistible conciusion that Jefferson Hope was to be found among the jarveys of the metropolis. “If he had been one there was no reason to believe that he had ceased to be. On the contrary, from his point of view, any sudden change would be likely to draw attention to himself. He would probably, for a time at least, continue to perform his duties. There was no reason to suppose that he was going under an assumed name. Why should he change his name ina country where no one knew his original one? I there- fore organized my street-arab detective corps, and sent them systematically to every cab proprietor in London until they ferreted out the man that I wanted. How well they succeeded and how quickly I took advantage of it are still fresh in your recollection. The murder of Stangerson was an incident which was entirely unex- pected, but which could hardly in any case have been prevented. Through it, as you know, I came into pos- session of the pills, the existence of which I had already SS (©