"
"As you like."
"My dear Bunny, this one must have contained the necklace you
boasted about."
"Very likely."
"And this one the tiara."
"I dare say."
"Yet she was wearing neither, as you prophesied, and as we both
saw for ourselves?
I had not taken my eyes from his.
"Raffles," I said, "I'll be frank with you after all. I meant you
never to know, but it's easier than telling you a lie. I left both
things behind me in the tower. I won't attempt to explain or defend
myself; it was probably the influence of the tower, and nothing
else; but the whole thing came over me at the last moment, when you
had gone and I was going. I felt that I should very probably break
my neck, that I cared very little whether I did or not, but that it
would be frightful to break it at that house with those things in my
pocket. You may say I ought to have thought of all. that before!
you may say what you like, and you won't say more than I deserve.
It was hysterical, and it was mean, for I kept the cases to impose
on you."
"You were always a bad liar, Bunny," said Raffles, smiling.
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