line, and who, with such instructors, may hope in time to attain to some
degree of their skill. It is expected that a testimonial of some sort
will be presented to the two officers as a fitting recognition of their
services."

"Didn't I tell you so when we started?" cried Sherlock Holmes with a
laugh. "That's the result of all our Study in Scarlet: to get them a
testimonial!"

"Never mind," I answered, "I have all the facts in my journal, and the
public shall know them. In the meantime you must make yourself contented
by the consciousness of success, like the Roman miser--

"'Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo
Ipse domi simul ac nummos contemplor in arca.'"

ORIGINAL TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:

[Footnote 1: Frontispiece, with the caption: "He examined with his glass
the word upon the wall, going over every letter of it with the most
minute exactness." (_Page_ 23.)]

[Footnote 2: "JOHN H. WATSON, M.D.": the initial letters in the name are
capitalized, the other letters in small caps. All chapter titles are in
small caps. The initial words of chapters are in small caps with first
letter capitalized.]

[Footnote 3: "lodgings.": the period should be a comma, as in later
editions.]

[Footnote 4: "hoemoglobin": should be haemoglobin. The o&e are
concatenated.]

[Footnote 5: "221B": the B is in small caps]

[Footnote 6: "THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY": the table-of-contents
lists this chapter as "...GARDENS MYSTERY"--plural, and probably more
correct.]

[Footnote 7: "brought."": the text has an extra double-quote mark]

[Footnote 8: "individual--": illustration this page, with the
caption: "As he spoke, his nimble fingers were flying here, there, and
everywhere."]

[Footnote 9: "manoeuvres": the o&e are concatenated.]

[Footnote 10: "Patent leathers": the hyphen is missing.]

[Footnote 11: "condonment": should be condonement.]

[Footnote 13: "wages.": ending quote is missing.]

[Footnote 14: "the first.": ending quote is missing.]

[Footnote 15: "make much of...": Other editions complete this sentence
with an "it." But there is a gap in the text at this point, and, given
the context, it may have actually been an interjection, a dash. The gap
is just the right size for the characters "it." and the start of a new
sentence, or for a "----"]

[Footnote 16: "tho cushion": "tho" should be "the"]

[Footnote 19: "shoving": later editions have "showing". The original is
clearly superior.