"So you were the burglar!" I exclaimed at last. "Well, I am just
as glad I didn't know."
He had wrung my hand already, but at this he fairly mangled it in
his.
"You dear little brick," he cried, "that's the one thing of all.
things I longed to hear you say! How could you have behaved as
you've done if you had known? How could any living man? How could
you have acted, as the polar star of all. the stages could not have
acted in your place? Remember that I have heard a lot, and as good
as seen as much as I've heard. Bunny, I don't know where you were
greatest: at the Albany, here, or at your bank!"
"I don't know where I was most miserable," I rejoined, beginning to
see the matter in a less perfervid light. "I know you don't credit
me with much finesse, but I would undertake to be in the secret and
to do quite as well; the only difference would be in my own peace of
mind, which, of course, doesn't count."
But Raffles wagged away with his most charming and disarming smile;
he was in old clothes, rather tattered and torn, and more than a
little grimy as to the face and hands, but, on the surface,
wonderfully little the worse for his experience.
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