In these few pages, Holmes and Watson went to see Miss Morstan (the woman who hired them to investigate) to gather some information. She asked them to not bring the police into this because she didn't like the public to know anything. So then they went to a cab and drove into a neighborhood. They stopped at the third house on that street and go out. When they knocked on the door, a hindu man opened it and told them "the sahib awaits you". So they went inside and met a man named Mr. Thaddeus Sholto. Upon meeting him he asked Watson to listen to his heart, but he did not hear anything unusual. They also met Thaddus' brother Bartholomew and found out that their father Major John Sholto died while telling his children about a treasure he found. Also because of the finding of that treasure Miss Morstan's father (who has disappeared) had died.
Later in the story Bartholomew found the treasure but was killed by a poison thorn in his skin. So because of the murder, a man named Athelney Jones, from the police force came and arrested Thaddeus for the murder. Holmes also finds out that there were two men at the murder scene that fled. So he told Watson to go the the house of a friend of his to get a dog. Once Watson brought the dog back, Holmes used it to sniff the trails of the two men. So for the rest of the pages they were following the dog around and his good sense of scent.
This book is not as boring as the first book of the Sherlock Holmes collection. I hope i enjoy it.
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