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Moreover , between the interview with Ravengar and the burglary of the flat he had summoned his Council of Ten , or , rather , his Council of Nine -LRB- Bentley being absent , dead -RRB- , had addressed all his employés , had separated three traitorous shopwalkers , ten traitorous cashiers , and forty-two traitorous servers from the main body , and sent them packing , had arranged for the rehabilitation of Lady Brice -LRB- _ née _ Kentucky-Webster -RRB- , had appointed a new guardian to the Safe Deposit , had got on the track of the stolen stoles , and had approved special advertisements for every daily paper in London . And , finally and supremely , he had experienced the greatest stroke of joy , ecstatic and bewildering joy , of his whole existence -- the news that Camilla lived . It was this tremendous feeling of joy , and not by any means his complex and variegated worries , that might have prevented him from obtaining the sleep which Nature demanded . On reaching the dome at 2 a.m. , he had taken four tabloids , each containing 0 · 324 gramme of trional , and had drunk the glass of hot milk which Simon always left him in case he should want it . And he had written on a sheet of paper the words : ` I am not to be disturbed before 10 a.m. , no matter what happens ; but call me at ten . -- H. ' ; and had put the sheet of paper on Simon 's door-mat . And then he had stumbled into bed , and abandoned himself to sleep -- not without reluctance , for he did not care to lose , even for a few hours , the fine consciousness of that sheer joy .