"And when, and where?"
"At Philippi, Bunny, where I said I'd see him. What a rabbit you
are at a quotation!
"'And I think that the field of Philippi
Was where Caesar came to an end;
But who gave old Brutus the tip, I
Can't comprehend!'
"You may have forgotten your Shakespeare, Bunny, but you ought to
remember that."
And I did, vaguely, but had no idea what it or Raffles meant, as
I plainly told him.
"The theatre of war," he answered - "and here we are at the stage
door!"
Raffles had stopped suddenly in his walk. It was the last dark
hour of the summer night, but the light from a neighboring lamppost
showed me the look on his face as he turned.
"I think you also inquired when," he continued. "Well, then, this
minute - if you will give me a leg up!"
And behind him, scarcely higher than his head, and not even barred,
was a wide window with a wire blind, and the name of Nasmyth among
others lettered in gold upon the wire.
"You're never going to break in?"
"This instant, if you'll, help me; in five or ten minutes, if you
won't.
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