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"Though if he'd seen you behind my counter I reckon that young 'un of 'Liathel Grummet's would have been struck dumber than nature made him in the fust place."
"Well, that's all there is to detect without your magnifying glass and microscope there," I replied. "Honestly, Watson, I think you're getting dumber and dumber every day! Think, man, think! Where in this immediate vicinity did you see red clay like that before?" said Holmes.
Did you go, after all?" he asked Caesar. They had not met since Warde's visit of the night before. "I didn't go," said Caesar. "Dumber gave it to me, with Verney's compliments." "You've lost your bet," said John. "But how?" "Jonathan went to town instead of me," said Desmond. "We thought he was with Warde he wasn't. This morning, early, I found out that he hadn't slept in his bed.
"Dick, sweetheart," she whispered, while a hot blush suffused her face, "you're not as dumb as I thought you were you're dumber! But if you simply won't say it, I will. Don't you know that a marriage that is legal where it is performed is legal anywhere, and that no law says that the marriage must be performed upon the Earth?"
No, oh, no; for then she would be deafer and dumber and blinder than she was before. It is a pity that we can't educate all the children in the asylums. To continue the Calcutta exposure: "What is the meaning of a Sheriff?" Sheriff is a post opened in the time of John.
Warde's study." John followed the butler into the familiar room. Warde was not down yet, but evidently Dumber had instructions not to leave the prisoner. John stared at the writing-desk. Then he turned to Dumbleton, and said carelessly "This means the sack, eh, Dumber?" "Yes, sir. 'Ow could you do it, sir? Such a well-be'aved gentleman too!" "Thank you, Dumber."
I saw him come back, and I saw Dumber waiting for him. When Dumber came out of Warde's room, he told me that Jonathan had been up to town, and was going to be sacked." He blurted out the rest of the story, to which Scaife listened attentively. When Desmond finished, there was a pause. "You're devilish clever," said Scaife to John. "I shall pay up the pony," said Desmond.
When John returned on Sunday to the Manor, shortly after the doors were unlocked in the morning, he found Dumbleton awaiting him. Dumber's face expressed such amazement and consternation that John nearly laughed in spite of himself. "It's all hup, sir," said the butler. Only in moments of intense excitement did Dumber misplace or leave out the aspirate. "You're to come with me at once to Mr.
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