I'll write you one of mine for ten thousand pounds, and you can come
along to endorse it, deposit it to your credit, and we'll leave the
Earl's diamond cuff-buttons at the safety deposit vault, mailing him
the receipt for them from there."

"Holmes, you're certainly a gentleman and a scholar," I said.
"Thanks."

On our return from the bank, after a few more games of chess, we had
an early dinner and retired to a much needed rest, in our bedroom
adjoining the celebrated sitting-room, but I couldn't get the case out
of my head, and inquired:

"Say, Holmes, old boy, how was it you didn't grab Launcelot first
instead of last, when you got all the evidence at once?"

Holmes had a grouch on just then,--for some reason or other,--and he
answered me by throwing one of his shoes in my direction, which I
hastily dodged by shoving my head under the bedclothes as he growled:

"Didn't you just make the equivalent of fifty thousand Yankee dollars
for three or four days' work, the most of which I did, Watson? For the
love of Pete, stow it away in your historical records somewhere and
forget it! Dry up and lemme go to sleep now, or I'll climb out there
and settle your hash for good!"

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