Grumpy

Andrew Bullivant, a retired lawyer known as “Grumpy” for his irascibility, calls on all his experience and powers of deduction to expose Chamberlin Jarvis as the thief of a valuable diamond being transported by Ernest Heron. A gardenia is the clue; and Virginia Bullivant, Ernest’s sweetheart, is Jarvis’ unwitting dupe.

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