And yet - and yet - what else could have happened? I must have
asked myself the question between each and all. of the above
reflections, made partly as I dressed and partly in the hansom on
the way to Half-moon Street. It was as yet the only question in my
mind. You must know what your emergency is before you can decide
how to cope with it; and to this day I sometimes tremble to think
of the rashly direct method by which I set about obtaining the
requisite information. I drove every yard of the way to the
pugilist's very door. You will remember that I had been dining
with Swigger Morrison at his club.
Yet at the last I had a rough idea of what I meant to say when the
door was opened. It seemed almost probable that the tragic end of
our talk over the telephone had been caused by the sudden arrival
and as sudden violence of Barney Maguire. In that case I was
resolved to tell him that Raffles and I had made a bet about his
burglar trap, and that I had come to see who had won. I might or
might not confess that Raffles had rung me out of bed to this end.
If, however, I was wrong about Maguire, and he had not come home
at all.
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