A museum of fine Oriental archaeology is passed to a new owner who is a close friend of the narrator. After receiving an anonymous warning letter, the museum is robbed. The letter is a warning to the new owner to have more than one guard on watch and is written in a script similar to that of the previous owner.
David admits his feelings for Dora to Miss Betsey, who reacts unexpectedly to the news. David attempts to recoup some money for Miss Betsey. Agnes informs David of her own family's situation.
Two of Musgrave’s domestic servants disappear after he catches the butler looking at the Musgrave ritual. He asks for Holmes’s assistance in finding them.
The guests stay at Thornfield for several days. Rochester and Blanche compete as a team at charades. From watching their interaction, Jane believes that they will be married soon though they do not seem to love one another. Blanche would be marrying Rochester for his wealth, and he for her beauty and her social position. One day, a strange man named Mr. Mason arrives at Thornfield. Jane dislikes him at once because of his vacant eyes and his slowness, but she learns from him that Rochester once lived in the West Indies, as he himself has done. One evening, a gypsy woman comes to Thornfield to tell the guests’ fortunes. Blanche Ingram goes first, and when she returns from her talk with the gypsy woman she looks keenly disappointed.
The author continues his work as a public speaker while still devoting himself to the prosperity of the Tuskegee Institute.
On the day before Christmas a man is caught in a fight and looses a goose and his hat. Sherlock Holmes is trying to figure out who the hat belongs to, when a blue carbuncle is found in the goose.
A story written in the form of a personal diary that investigates the strange disappearances of sheep into the Blue John Gap.
Jekyll’s explanation of events. (Longmans, Green and co., 1886)
George appointment as an official delegate comes with newfound sense respect.
The gods continue to argue amongst themselves while interfering with the lives of mortals.
After receiving a visit from Jerome, Manfred confronts him calling him “Usurper”.
On his wedding day, Conrad is crushed by a giant helmet. Menfred, Conrad’s father makes advances toward Isabella, Conrad’s betrothed.
A wise old man tells the story two young women who are enticed by a mysterious gnome to listen to the wind and the water near a fresh water fount, and then leads one of them to her death. Un viejo sabidurio, relata el cuento de dos mujeres jovenes que son tentadas por un gnome a escuchar el aire y el agua cerca de una fuente de agua fresca, y lleva a una de ellas a su muerte.
The reader is introduced some additional members of the Lammeter family. Godfrey makes a request of Nancy at the Christmas dance.
Haidee relates the story of her father's death to Albert and the Count of Monte Cristo.
Elsie marries Hilton Cubitt and tells him not to ask her about her past. She gets a letters from the United States and pictures of small dancing men start appearing everywhere around her. Holmes is brought in to get to the bottom of the pictures. From then on, things get worse until Holmes cracks the case.
Mr. Watson finds Holmes in an opium den when looking for a friend who had been missing. Holmes is studying a case in which a man disappeared from the upstairs room of the den. All that was found was a deformed man with a limp and traces of the man’s blood and clothes with no apparent violence.
Uriah Heep's dealings come to light.
More on the history of nubmer systems.
Carol is disappointed by her experience at the Thanatopsis Club.
Mulford swims for the boat. The group is reunited with Captain Spike, who tries to rid himself of Mulford.
The author describes the symptoms that have appeared in and on the cows and how he treated them.
A biography of Sir Isaac Newton.