A Study in Scarlet (Serial Edition Cover) — page 57: what you’re looking at

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A STUDY IN SCARLET. 49 good working basis, however, on which to start. We must hurry up, for I want to go to Halle’s concert, to hear Norman Neruda, this afternoon.” This conversation had occurred while our cab had been threading its way through a long succession of dingy streets and dreary by-ways. In the dingiest and dreariest of them our driver suddenly came to a stand. | “That’s Audley Court in there,” he said, pointing to a narrow slit in the line of a dead-colored brick. ‘“ You’ll find me here when you come back.” Audley Court was not an attractive locality. The narrow passage led us into a quadrangle paved with flags and lined by sordid dwellings. We picked our way among groups of dirty children and through lines of discolored linen until we came to No. 46, the door of which was decorated with a small slip of brass, on which the name Rance was engraved. On inquiry we found that the constable was in bed, and we were shown into a little front parlor, to await his coming. He appeared presently, looking a little irritable at being disturbed in his slumbers. “I made my report at the office,” he said. Holmes took a half-sovereign from his pocket, and played with it pensively. “We thought that we should like to hear it all from your own lips,” he said. “T shall be most happy to tell you anything I can,” the constable answered, with his eyes upon the little golden disk. | ) ‘Just let me hear it all in your own way, as it oc curred.” CONNIELOOO SS (C@