A Study in Scarlet (Serial Edition Cover) — page 94: what you’re looking at

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86 A STUDY IN SCARLET, features from which deductions may be drawn. This murder would have been infinitely more difficult to un- ravel had the body of the victim been simply found lying in the roadway without any of those ou¢ré and sensa- tional accompaniments which have rendered it remark- able. These strange details, far from making the case more difficult, have really had the effect of making it less so.” Mr. Gregson, who had listened to this address with considerable impatience, could contain himself no fonger. “ Look here, Mr. Sherlock Holmes,” he said, “ we are all ready to acknowledge that you are a smart man, and that you have your own methods of working. We want something more than mere theory and preaching now, though. It is a case of taking the man. I have made my case out, and it seems I was wrong. Young Char- pentier could not have been engaged in this second affair. Lestrade went after this man, Stangerson, and it appears that he was wrong, too. You have thrown out hints here and hints there, and seem to know more than we do, but the time has come when we feel that we have a right to ask you straight how much you do know of the business. Can you name the man who did it?” | “T cannot help feeling that Gregson is right, sir,” re- marked Lestrade. ‘‘ We have both tried, and we have both failed. You have remarked more than once since I have been in the room that you had ali the evidence which you require. Surely you will not withhold it any longer.” Gomilcboo