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Updated: October 19, 2026
Er, what was that hother question you harsked me, sir?" "I asked if you had any prison-record." "Well, now, what a question, Mr. 'Olmes! Do you really think that Hi would stoop so low as to swipe 'Is Lawdship's cuff-buttons?" "I didn't ask you whether you stole the cuff-buttons or not. I'll find out soon enough whether you did.
"What's your name, age, previous place of employment, and prison-record, if any?" snapped Holmes impatiently, as he noticed the obese face and low brow of the man before him. "Why, er, ah, my name is Hegbert Bunbury, sir. Hi ham forty-two years old. Hi hused to work for the Duke of Bridgerswold, sir, but Hi 'ave come down hin the world, sir, and now Hi ham working for honly a hearl.
He was a burglar with a prison-record; but his last arrest had been in a middle Western town for taking part in a bar-room fight, and the judge didn't happen to know his record, and accepted his tearful plea, agreeing to suspend sentence provided the prisoner would enlist to fight for his country.