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Yusuf remained a centre of attention by creeping wildly all over the floor of the dining room, making the knees of his pipestem--like white pantaloons quite dusty. If he found what he sought, he kept it secret. He had the impudence to exclaim that I had picked up something as I was leaving the room. It was the button which Yusuf had wrenched off Percy's evening shorts. I produced it, on demand, from my apron pocket; and there was a button missing where I indicated. The chauffeur said I could have had the button from an earlier moment.
He crawled through into the Cinema Hall, like a big boy acting bear, and Zarl saw him pick an object off the back of the tall chair, the throne on which Ydonea had been sitting.