"It was the only solution," he answered, handing me the cigarettes.
"I saw it the moment I got outside."
"I don't see it yet."
"Why should a burglar call an innocent gentleman away from home?"
"That's what we couldn't make out."
"I tell you I got it directly I had left you. He called you away
in order to burgle you too, of course!"
And Raffles stood smiling upon me in all. his incomparable radiance
and audacity.
"But why me?" I asked. "Why on earth should he burgle me?"
"My dear Bunny, we must leave something to the imagination of the
police. But we will assist them to a fact or two in due season.
It was the dead of night when Maguire first took us to his house;
it was at the Imperial Boxing Club we met him; and you meet queer
fish at the Imperial Boxing Club. You may remember that he
telephoned to his man to prepare supper for us, and that you and
he discussed telephones and treasure as we marched through the
midnight streets. He was certainly bucking about his trophies,
and for the sake of the argument you will be good enough to admit
that you probably bucked about yours.
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