The Adventures of the Eleven Cuff-Buttons

CHAPTER I

Well, you see, it was like this:

After my illustrious friend, Hemlock Holmes, champion unofficial detective of the world, had doped out "The Adventure of the Second Stain,"--the last one to be pulled off after his return to life,--thereby narrowly averting a great war, he got sick of London life and hiked over to the United States. He prevailed upon me to a...