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"Well, all right, Your Lordship," agreed La Violette, after some hesitation, "I guess I'll pocket my outraged pride, also the one hundred per cent increase in salary, and let you have the further benefit of my services. But I want it distinctly understood by every one present," he added, as he faced around to the others, "that I wouldn't have those pestiferous Puddingham cuff-buttons as a gift!
Time rolled on, and the clock on the marble mantel struck half-past eleven, twelve, half-past twelve, one, and at length came to a quarter past one, while I couldn't dope out who swiped the cuff-buttons to save my neck!
"As I was about to say, when Barnaby butted in, the first man who noticed any of the cuff-buttons stolen, next to the Earl himself, was Luigi Vermicelli, his Italian valet. Call him in," ordered Holmes. On a motion from the Earl, his secretary Thorneycroft went out to the corridor and brought in the more or less scared valet. "What's your full name?" demanded Holmes. "Luigi Vittorio Vermicelli."
"Ah," said Holmes, a smile gleaming on his eager face, "that was just the time when some of the diamond cuff-buttons disappeared. Now, where were you all during Monday morning?" "Right here in my own room, of course, having Teresa arrange my hair. I had breakfast served to me in here, and didn't go downstairs till noontime." "And when was the Earl's room swept out?" pursued Holmes. "Really, Mr.
You see that's how it's done, examining the incriminating stains on the soles of the shoes. Not the daintiest job in the world, perhaps, but it brings the results, and that's the main thing. This now makes a total of nine of the Puddingham cuff-buttons I have unearthed, and I have promised myself that I shall bag the other two by to-night."
Holmes, who has just now recovered all my stolen diamond cuff-buttons, Joe.
We came downstairs again, and Holmes tackled the Earl in the library. "Well, Your Lordship, here's the third one of your bally cuff-buttons," he began, as he handed it to him. "And the name of the person who had it is " The voice grew inaudible to me as Holmes bent down and whispered the name into the Earl's ears.
The fact that he spoke English, French and German fluently; that his linen, clothing, scarf and cuff-buttons were of superior make would not be sufficient reason for assuming his superiority, as he himself well understood. And yet he doubtless acknowledged in himself this superiority, and regarded the respect shown him as his due, and was offended when it was not forthcoming.
"Well, Joe," continued Holmes, "what do you know about the lost and lamented cuff-buttons, if anything?" "Not a darned thing, and that's the Gospel truth.
Two more pairs of those cuff-buttons have been abstracted during your absence, making five pairs in all that are gone! I suppose this is the eminent Mr. Holmes?" And the noble Earl of Puddingham hurriedly shook hands with my boss. "Right you are, Your Lordship," said Holmes, "and here is the egregious Dr. Watson, also at your service.
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