A Study in Scarlet (Serial Edition Cover) — page 87: what you’re looking at

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A STUDY iN SCARLET, "9 to find cut what had become of the secretary. They had been seen together at Euston Station about halt past eight on the evening of the third. At two in the morning Drebber had been found in the Brixton Road. The question which confronted me was to find out how Stangerson had been employed between 8:30 and the time of the crime, and what had become of him after- ward. I telegraphed to Liverpool, giving a description of the man, and warning them to keep a watch upon the American boats. I then set to work calling upon all the hotels and lodging-houses in the vicinity of Eus- ton. You see, I argued that if Drebber and his com- panion had become separated, the natural course for the latter would be to put up somewhere in the vicinity for the night, and then to hang about the station again next morning.” “They would be likely to agree on some meeting- place beforehand,” remarked Holmes. “So it proved. _ I spent the whole of yesterday even- ing in making inquiries entirely without avail. This morning I began very early, and at eight o’clock I reached Halliday’s Private Hotel, in Little George Street. On my inquiry as to whether a Mr. Stangerson was liv- ing there, they at once answered me in the affirmative. «No doubt you are the gentleman he was expecting,’ they said. ‘He has been waiting for a gentleman for two days.’ “‘* Where is he now?’ I asked. “* He is upstairs in bed. He wished to be called at nine.’ “Tt seemed to me that my sudden appearance might (COLMA (a) VNOOKS