The early train is due at Victoria at 8.28, but these
worthies left it at Clapham Junction, and changed cabs more than
once between Battersea and Piccadilly, and a few of their garments
in each four-wheeler. It was barely nine o'clock when they sat
together in the Albany, and might have been recognized once more
as Raffles and myself.
"And now," said Raffles, "before we do anything else, let us turn
out those little cases that we hadn't time to open when we took
them. I mean the ones I handed to you, Bunny. I had a look into
mine in the garden, and I'm sorry to say there was nothing in them.
The lady must have been wearing their proper contents."
Raffles held out his hand for the substantial leather cases which
I had produced at his request. But that was the extent of my
compliance; instead of handing them over, I looked boldly into the
eyes that seemed to have discerned my wretched secret at one glance.
"It is no use my giving them to you," I said. "They are empty also."
"When did you look into them?"
"In the tower."
"Well, let me see for myself.
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