Grumpy
by Horace Hodges

The Story deals ness of the old man.

The robbery takes place in the house of Mr. Andrew Bullivant, with the robbery of a large diamond, and the detection of the thief through the shrewd-familiarly called "Grumpy" by his granddaughter, Virginia, and his nephew, Ernest Heron.

The latter is bearing the gem to his employers, in London, and is about to pass the night in the house of his uncle.

Seated alone in the sitting-room, after all have retired, he is mysteriously set upon in the dark by an unknown assailant, rendered unconscious and relieved of the valuable stone.

Through a white camelia, the stem of which has been tied with a woman's hair, and with no other clue to guide him, the amusing old man, step by step, traces the perpetrator, fastens the guilt upon an unsuspected personage, and in the end makes him disgorge the gem, and soxrowns the happiness of his nephew and granddaughter, who love each other.