"I see that I managed to replace the
receiver all. right. But still - they may."
"I'm afraid they will," said I, uncomfortably. "I'm very much
afraid I gave something of the kind away. You see, you had not
replaced the receiver; it was dangling over you where you lay.
This very question came up, and the brutes themselves seemed so
quick to see its possibilities that I thought best to take the
bull by the horns and own that I had been rung up by somebody.
To be absolutely honest, I even went so far as to say I thought
it was Raffles!"
"You didn't, Bunny!"
"What could I say? I was obliged to think of somebody, and I saw
they were not going to recognize you. So I put up a yarn about a
wager we had made about this very trap of Maguire's. You see,
Raffles, I've never properly told you how I got in, and there's
no time now; but the first thing I had said was that I half
expected to find you here before me. That was in case they
spotted you at once. But it made all. that part about the telephone
fit in rather well."
"I should think it did, Bunny," murmured Raffles, in a tone that
added sensibly to my reward.
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