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"No: it is clear and concise"

"Well, now, let us put ourselves in the place of Jonathan Small Let us look at it froland with the double idea of regaining what he would consider to be his rights and of having his revenge upon the ed him He found out where Sholto lived, and very possibly he established communications with some one inside the house There is this butler, Lal Rao, e have not seen Mrs Bernstone gives hiood character Small could not find out, however, where the treasure was hid, for no one ever knew, save the major and one faithful servant who had died Suddenly Small learns that the major is on his death-bed In a frenzy lest the secret of the treasure die with hiuards,by the presence of his two sons Mad with hate, however, against the dead ht, searches his private papers in the hope of discovering so to the treasure, and finally leaves a momento of his visit in the short inscription upon the card He had doubtless planned beforehand that should he slay the n that it was not a common murder, but, fro in the nature of an act of justice Whih in the annals of crime, and usually afford valuable indications as to the criminal Do you follow all this?"

"Very clearly"

"Nohat could Jonathan Small do? He could only continue to keep a secret watch upon the efforts land and only coarret, and he is instantly inforain trace the presence of so, is utterly unable to reach the lofty room of Bartholomew Sholto He takes with hiets over this difficulty, but dips his naked foot into creasote, whence comes Toby, and a six-ed tendo Achillis"

"But it was the associate, and not Jonathan, who coust, to judge by the way he staainst Bartholomew Sholto, and would have preferred if he could have been sied He did not wish to put his head in a halter There was no help for it, however: the savage instincts of his companion had broken out, and the poison had done its work: so Jonathan Sround, and followed it himself That was the train of events as far as I can decipher them Of course as to his personal appearance hehis tiht is readily calculated froth of his stride, and we know that he was bearded His hairiness was the one point which impressed itself upon Thaddeus Sholto when he saw hi else"