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"That's all right," he said when Thorndyke had explained the situation "I daresay you'll find Berkeley as useful ason with Barnard" He spoke with unwonted gravity, and there was in his tone a solicitude for me that attracted my notice and that of Thorndyke as well, for the latter looked at hih he made no comment After a short silence, however, he asked: "And what news doesthe outer barbarians, and I see a bundle of newspapers underin particular happened?"

Jervis looked more uncoly, "so about the bush; Berkeleydevils outside" He took a couple of papers from his bundle and silently handed one to me and the other to Thorndyke

Jervis's oh, alarmed me not a little I opened the paper with a naue fears, they fell far short of the occasion; and when I saw those yells fro capitals I turned for a raph was only a short one, and I read it through in less than a minute: "THE MISSING FINGER "DRAMATIC DISCOVERY AT WOODFORD

"The mystery that has surrounded the remains of a mutilated human body, portions of which have been found in various places in Kent and Essex, has received a partial and very sinister solution The police have, all along, suspected that these reham who disappeared under circuo There is now no doubt upon the subject, for the finger which wasfrom the hand that was found at Sidcup has been discovered at the botto, which has been identified as one habitually worn by Mr John Bellinghaarden of which the well is situated was the property of the murdered man, and was occupied at the tiham But the latter left it very soon after, and it has been empty ever since Just lately it has been put in repair, and it was in this way that the well came to be eer, as searching the neighbourhood for further re of the well and went down in the bucket to exa