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And the first gardener turned on his heel, whereupon Holmes remarked with a grin: "Sorry to have troubled you, Herr Blumenroth. You're all right. You're exonerated. Next!" A short and swarthy fellow entered, who looked like a bandit. "Well, what's your name, anyhow? Where did you drop from, and what do you know about this affair?" queried Holmes. "Demetrius Xanthopoulos.
"Yes, yes, I know that already," I hastened to say; "but what about your seizing Galetchkoff, Bunbury, and Xanthopoulos? You didn't seem to have any shoe-sole clues by which to follow there." "Doc, when I can't get 'em any other way I pull off my feminine intuition, which I have inherited in large measure from my French mother, and I can always run 'em down with that!
"Well, I hope so, Holmes; only I can't help thinking what a supreme chump that Earl is for keeping those five servants of his from whom you extracted the first seven cuff-buttons, Yensen, Thorneycroft, Galetchkoff, Bunbury, and Xanthopoulos!" I said; "because at any time they are liable to steal the darned cuff-buttons again.
Upon being told that Holmes had recovered two of the cuff-buttons from Yensen and Thorneycroft, and was in a fair way to recover a third one from Xanthopoulos, they were greatly surprised. "We left Inspector Letstrayed asleep on one of the billiard tables," said Launcelot, with a grin; "but I guess Holmes was able to get along pretty well without him.
We didn't have long to wait, for he soon showed up in the doorway, with his swarthy face and shifty eyes, and asked Wuxley if Luigi had arrived yet to meet him. Suppressing a smile, Wuxley motioned him in, saying that Luigi was in a back room. As he passed the bran barrels Holmes and I jumped out and nailed him, and Holmes exclaimed: "Well, here I am, Mr. Xanthopoulos.
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