A Study in Scarlet (Serial Edition Cover) — page 50: what you’re looking at

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4s A STUDY IN SCARLET. to put the female name Rachel, but was disturbed before _ he or she had time to finish, You mark my words, when this case comes to be cleared up you will find that a woman named Rachel has something to do with it. It’s all very well for you to laugh, Mr. Sherlock | Holmes. You may be very smart and clever, but the old hound is the best, when all is said and done.” “T really beg your pardon!” said my companion, who had ruffled the little man’s temper by bursting inte an explosion of laughter. “You certainly have the credit of being the first of us to find this out, and, as you say, it bears every mark of having been written by the other participant in last night’s mystery. I have not had time to examine this room yet, but with your per- mission I shall do so now.” As he spoke, he whipped a tape-measure and a large, round magnifying-glass from his pocket. With these two implements he trotted noiselessly about the room, sometimes stopping, occasionally kneeling, and once lying flat upon his face. So engrossed was he with his occupation that he appeared to have forgotten our pres- ence, for he chattered away to himself under his breath the whole time, keeping up a running fire of exclamations, groans, whistles, and little cries suggestive of encourage- ment and of hope. As I watched him I was rrresistibly reminded of a pure-blocded, well-trained fox-hound as it dashes backward and forward through the covert, whining in its eagerness, until it comes across the lost — scent. For twenty minutes or more he continued his researches, measuring with the most exact care the dis- tance between marks which were entirely invisible to me, Gomicboo cS com