Librarian William Garrett is asked to locate a book called 'The Tractate Middoth' but a mysterious cloaked figure takes the book from the shelves and Eldred panics and leaves. On a second attempt to find the book Garrett is confronted by the mysterious borrower, the encounter causing him to faint. He goes to the seaside to recover and learns that the landlady was cheated out of an inheritance when her uncle died and the will was hidden in the pages of the Tractate Middoth. (imdb)