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"What are we to do, then?" I asked, as we landed near Millbank Penitentiary

"Take this hansoet an hour's sleep It is quite on the cards that we raph-office, cabby! We will keep Toby, for he may be of use to us yet"

We pulled up at the Great Peter Street post-office, and Holmes despatched his wire "Whom do you think that is to?" he asked, as we resumed our journey

"I am sure I don't know"

"You remember the Baker Street division of the detective police force whom I ehing

"This is just the case where they ht be invaluable If they fail, I have other resources; but I shall try theins, and I expect that he and his gang will be with us before we have finished our breakfast"

It was between eight and nine o'clock now, and I was conscious of a strong reaction after the successive exciteed in ued in body I had not the professional enthusiasm which carried my companion on, nor could I look at the matter as a mere abstract intellectual problem As far as the death of Bartholoood of him, and could feel no intense antipathy to his murderers The treasure, however, was a different htfully to Miss Morstan While there was a chance of recovering it I was ready to devote my life to the one object True, if I found it it would probably put her forever beyond my reach Yet it would be a petty and selfish love which would be influenced by such a thought as that If Holer reason to urge me on to find the treasure

A bath at Baker Street and a coe freshened me up wonderfully When I came down to our roo out the coffee

"Here it is," said he, laughing, and pointing to an open newspaper "The energetic Jones and the ubiquitous reporter have fixed it up between theh of the case Better have your has first"

I took the paper from him and read the short notice, which was headed "Mysterious Business at Upper Norwood"

"About twelve o'clock last night," said the Standard, "Mr Bartholoe, Upper Norwood, was found dead in his room under circumstances which point to foul play As far as we can learn, no actual traces of violence were found upon Mr Sholto's person, but a valuable collection of Indian geentleman had inherited from his father has been carried off The discovery was first made by Mr Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson, who had called at the house with Mr Thaddeus Sholto, brother of the deceased By a singular piece of good fortune, Mr Athelney Jones, the well-known member of the detective police force, happened to be at the Norwood Police Station, and was on the ground within half an hour of the first alarm His trained and experienced faculties were at once directed towards the detection of the cri result that the brother, Thaddeus Sholto, has already been arrested, together with the housekeeper, Mrs Bernstone, an Indian butler naatekeeper, named McMurdo It is quite certain that the thief or thieves ell acquainted with the house, for Mr Jones's well-known technical knowledge and his powers of minute observation have enabled him to prove conclusively that the miscreants could not have entered by the door or by the , but , and so through a trap-door into a room which communicated with that in which the body was found This fact, which has been very clearly made out, proves conclusively that it was no etic action of the officers of the las the great advantage of the presence on such occasions of a single vigorous and ument to those ould wish to see our detectives ht into closer and more effective touch with the cases which it is their duty to investigate"