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Updated: May 22, 2025
"Give me the village constables, any of them, at Hedge-gutheridge, quick!" he called through the instrument. "This one of the constables?" after a moment. "This is Normanstow Towers. The Earl of Puddingham has apparently been murdered by some one attempting to steal the last of his diamond cuff-buttons.... Hemlock Holmes, from London, talking.
People speak of 'honest Jenkins, 'excellent, worthy Jenkins. But I know you, my man, and for all your fine motto, so insolently displayed on your envelopes, on your seal, your cuff-buttons, your hat-buckles and the panels of your carriages, I always see the knave that you are, showing everywhere around the edges of your disguise."
Letstrayed, however, seemed to think that my partner was unjustly putting something over on him in getting back so many of the cuff-buttons when he, Letstrayed, couldn't find one.
I'll swear I didn't have a thing to do with the disappearance of the other nine cuff-buttons, because if I did, I'd tell you. That's all."
It would greatly assist me in clearing up the mystery of the robbery. Never mind the disguise. I've worn worse," returned Holmes politely. The Countess frowned. "Why, have some of the Earl's cigars been stolen, too, as well as the cuff-buttons?" she asked. "No; but they have something to do with them, though.
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.
Now when we were chasing that Russian hash-mixer or biscuit-shooter out of the kitchen door closely pursued by Louis with the butcher-knife, your old Uncle Hemlock's intuition told him that there was another one of the guilty wretches who had cabbaged the cuff-buttons!
I'll forgive you; but don't let it happen again." "All right, George, thank you; but I still think that Launcelot is responsible for the disappearance of the other eight cuff-buttons." With which Parthian shot, the Countess of Puddingham left the room. "Still got it in for Brother Launcie, eh?" grinned Holmes, as the Earl put the third gem in his vest-pocket.
"I fear that this is a bad omen," said the Earl, frowning; "but I trust it may not prevent the success of our undertaking." "Don't worry! I wasn't hurt," answered Holmes. And we went up the stairway together. Holmes, and Dr. Watson, also. I am sure that my husband the Earl and all of us will be more than glad if you recover the lost diamond cuff-buttons for us."
As an after-thought, the constables even had the temerity to search me, as if I would dream of doing such a thing as that, me, Eustace Thorneycroft! "But they couldn't find the precious pair of diamond cuff-buttons on them at all; so the Earl had me beat it right into London on the next train, and engage you to ferret out the scoundrels responsible for this dastardly outrage!
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