"Did he ask you why you didn't bring it to him before?"
"No, he treated me with great politeness, and asked me to accept the sleeve button."
"What?"
Dean repeated his statement.
"But if you keep this the other won't be any good to him."
"He says both sleeve buttons were stolen from him the day before my uncle's robbery by a tramp—that is, he thinks it was a tramp."
"Jehu! That's the first I ever heard of it," said Brandon, in great surprise.
"Just as I thought," said Dean to himself. "Your father can probably give you all the particulars," he added aloud.
"But you haven't told me where you found it, Dean."