"I couldn't have done better myself,
and you will forgive my saying that you have never in your life
done half so well. Talk about that crack you gave me on the head!
You have made it up to me a hundredfold by all. you have done
to-night. But the bother of it is that there's still so much to
do, and to hit upon, and so precious little time for thought as
well as action."
I took out my watch and showed it to Raffles without a word. It
was three o'clock in the morning, and the latter end of March. In
little more than an hour there would be dim daylight in the streets.
Raffles roused himself from a reverie with sudden decision.
"There's only one thing for it, Bunny," said he. "We must trust
each other and divide the labor. You ring up the police,(and leave
the rest to me."
"You haven't hit upon any reason for the sort of burglar they think
you were, ringing up the kind of man they know I am?"
"Not yet, Bunny, but I shall. It may not be wanted for a day or so,
and after all. it isn't for you to give the explanation. It would
be highly suspicious if you did.
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