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The little ly "We were your trustees," he said "That was the viehich I took of it, though Brother Bartholoht We had plenty of money ourselves I desired no more Besides, it would have been such bad taste to have treated a young lady in so scurvy a fashion 'Le outthese things Our difference of opinion on this subject went so far that I thought it best to set up roo the old khitar and Williams with me Yesterday, however, I learn that an event of extreme importance has occurred The treasure has been discovered I instantly communicated with Miss Morstan, and it only remains for us to drive out to Norwood and deht to Brother Bartholomew: so we shall be expected, if not welco on his luxurious settee We all rehts upon the new development which theto his feet

"You have done well, sir, from first to last," said he "It is possible that we ht upon that which is still dark to you But, as Miss Morstan remarked just now, it is late, and we had best put the h without delay"

Our new acquaintance very deliberately coiled up the tube of his hookah, and produced froed topcoat with Astrakhan collar and cuffs This he buttoned tightly up, in spite of the extre on a rabbit-skin cap with hanging lappets which covered the ears, so that no part of him was visible save his ile," he ree "I a us outside, and our prograed, for the driver started off at once at a rapid pace Thaddeus Sholto talked incessantly, in a voice which rose high above the rattle of the wheels

"Bartholomew is a clever fellow," said he "How do you think he found out where the treasure was? He had come to the conclusion that it was somewhere indoors: so he worked out all the cubic space of the house, and made measurements everywhere, so that not one inch should be unaccounted for A was seventy-four feet, but on adding together the heights of all the separate roo every allowance for the space between, which he ascertained by borings, he could not bring the total to more than seventy feet There were four feet unaccounted for These could only be at the top of the building He knocked a hole, therefore, in the lath-and-plaster ceiling of the highest rooarret above it, which had been sealed up and was known to no one In the centre stood the treasure-chest, resting upon two rafters He lowered it through the hole, and there it lies He computes the value of the jewels at not less than half a "