SPOILERS!!!
Thadeus tells Holmes, Watson and Mary that they need to go to his brother Bartholomew's because he has found the treasure that his father and Mary's had fought about. They set off and when they reach the cottage, the servants tell them that they are very worried because Bartholomew hasn't left her room since the morning. Holmes and Watson stand outside the door, and when Holmes looks through the keyhole, he sees the man with a stiff smile, and he can tell he is dead.
Holmes and Watson force the door open and find the man dead. Holmes removes a thorn, which he believes is poisoned and has killed the man. Holmes sends Thadeus to get the police, and in the meantime he examines the room. He finds prints on the floor of some kind of stick, and he believes that this is the wooden-legged man that Major Sholto was afraid of. Watson and Holmes climb to the room that Bartholomew found the treasure in, and they realise that the man entered through the trapdoor in this room. He also finds a second pair of prints, very small for the average man, and Watson thinks that they may belong to a child.
When the police inspector, Athelney Jones, arrives, he is ready to arrest Thadeus. HOlmes tells him that he believes that one of the men involved in the murder is Johathan Small, who has a wooden leg. Thadeus has to go with the inspector, but Holmes reassures him that he will clear his name soon.
It is sweet that during Watson's narration, he is drawn to Mary and he feels that he has fallen for her in just a few hours.
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