The Three Thieves Who Steal the Treasure Chest

At the start of the story, two thieves arrive at the same time at a house to steal a chest that contains gold and silver bullion bars. The first thief parks his car right in front of the house while the second thief parks further away from the house. The first thief uses a pry bar to open the front door. With the precious metal detector, he manages to track the chest in a lower cabinet at the cellar under the kitchen. He is happy to find the chest of bullion bars. Just when he takes one of the bullion bar to kiss it, the second thief comes from behind and tries to strangle him. After struggling for some time, the second thief knock hims over against the wall and he becomes unconscious.

Next, he goes up to the master bedroom and check the drawers in the drawers cupboard. He finds a hand grenade which is actually a toy grenade, and a gun. He uses the house owner's clothe to bind the house owner who is sleeping on the bed as well as the person which he has knocked out in the underground kitchen cellar. He lays the gun down beside the knocked out person and scatters marbles on the floor before whistling for his two other friends in the van to come and carry the chest.

The neighbor living opposite the street has been watching the three persons carrying the chest into their van all the while. She quickly calls the police after they had gone. Her husband argues with her not to call the police because he is afraid that they may get killed for doing so. The police arrives about four hours later in the morning.

Two policemen who first enter into the house accidentally break their legs when stepping over the marbles that have been strewn all over the floor. The house owner decides to hire a detective Mark VIII IX or detective Mark the 89th when he learns that the police will take their time to catch them.

Detective Mark VIII IX is shopping for groceries one day when he notices a man who has a pocket full of the same marbles on his trousers.Some marbles are dropping on the floor and he follows him to his house. He is the wrong person but he gives him information on where he purchased those marbles. At the place where the same kind of marbles are sold, there is a boy who is playing the marbles on the street.

The boy tells the detective that he finds those marbles at the trash cash opposite the street. He then finds the house of the 3 thieves and manage to track them down at Greece later. The three thieves are eventually arrested but they make up their mind to change their ways in prison. When they come out of prison, they work alongside with the cops to catch criminals.

The mystery short story tells how the famous Detective Mark VIII IX helps in solving the case in a short time frame and also help many others to recover their stolen treasures.