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"Mother will be awfully vexed when she comes back from her ride and finds you have gone," he observed to the departing guest, "but I'll make up some story about an urgent wire having called you away. It wouldn't do to alarm her unnecessarily about Sturridge."
"This is awful," said Jane; "your mother must be told about it at once." "My mother mustn't hear a word about it," said Clovis earnestly; "it would upset her dreadfully. She relies on Sturridge for everything." "But he might kill me at any moment," protested Jane. "Not at any moment; he's busy with the silver all the afternoon."
"Exactly," said Clovis thoughtfully, swallowing his completed Ella Wheeler Wilcox. "But Sturridge hasn't gone mad," said Jane with a flutter of inquiry in her voice. "On most points he's thoroughly sane and reliable," said Clovis, "but at times he is subject to the most obstinate delusions, and on those occasions he becomes not merely a nuisance but a decided embarrassment."
Now, you've mentioned Sturridge it was Sturridge I was particularly thinking of when I made the observation about servants being a nuisance." "The excellent Sturridge a nuisance! I can't believe it." "I know he's excellent, and we just couldn't get along without him; he's the one reliable element in this rather haphazard household. But his very orderliness has had an effect on him.
It was in the hall the next morning after a late breakfast that Clovis had his final inspiration as he stood engaged in coaxing rust spots from an old putter. "Where is Miss Martlet?" he asked the butler, who was at that moment crossing the hall. "Writing letters in the morning-room, sir," said Sturridge, announcing a fact of which his questioner was already aware.
The trouble I've had in getting suited this year you would hardly believe. But I don't see what you have to complain of your mother is so wonderfully lucky in her servants. Sturridge, for instance he's been with you for years, and I'm sure he's a paragon as butlers go." "That's just the trouble," said Clovis.
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