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`` Correct ! '' was the answer ; `` the treasure-house of your modern Babylon ! Wait , now , until I return ; and , if you have no relish for arrest as a burglar , do not move -- do not breathe ! '' With that , he was gone , into the dense shadows about ; and Henry Thomas Sheard , of the _ Gleaner _ , found himself , at , approximately , a quarter-past two in the morning , standing in an apartment of the British Museum , with no better explanation to offer , in the event of detection , than that he had come there in the company of Séverac Bablon . He thought of the many printing-presses busy , even then , with the deductions of Fleet Street theorists , regarding this man of mystery . All of their conclusions must necessarily be wrong , since their premises were certainly so . For which of them who had assured his readers that Séverac Bablon was a common cracksman -LRB- on a large scale -RRB- would not have reconsidered his opinion had he learned that the common cracksman held private keys of the national treasure-house ?