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"He wanted a dog of yours"

"Ah! that would be Toby"

"Yes, Toby was the name"

"Toby lives at No 7 on the left here" Hethe queer aniathered round hiht I could see di down at us from every cranny and corner Even the rafters above our heads were lined by sole to the other as our voices disturbed their slu-haired, lop-eared creature, half spaniel and half lurcher, brown-and-white in color, with a very cluait It accepted after soar which the old naturalist handed tothus sealed an alliance, it followedme It had just struck three on the Palace clock when I found hter McMurdo had, I found, been arrested as an accessory, and both he and Mr Sholto had been uarded the narrow gate, but they allowedthe detective's na on the door-step, with his hands in his pockets, s his pipe

"Ah, you have hione We have had an iy since you left He has arrested not only friend Thaddeus, but the gatekeeper, the housekeeper, and the Indian servant We have the place to ourselves, but for a sergeant up-stairs Leave the dog here, and come up"

We tied Toby to the hall table, and reascended the stairs The room was as he had left it, save that a sheet had been draped over the central figure A weary-looking police-sergeant reclined in the corner

"Lend eant," said my companion "Now tie this bit of card roundit in front of s--Just you carry the And dip my handkerchief into the creasote That will do Now coarret with h the hole Holht once more upon the footsteps in the dust

"I wish you particularly to notice these foot noteworthy about them?"