"And then, pray, how are they going to bring it home to us? Why
should they even suspect us, Bunny? I left early; that's all. I did.
You took my departure admirably; you couldn't have said more or
less if I had coached you myself. I relied on you, Bunny, and you
never more completely justified my confidence. The sad thing is
that you have ceased to rely on me. Do you really think that I
would leave the place in such a state that the first person who came
in with a duster would see that there had been a robbery?"
I denied the thought with all. energy, though it perished only as I
spoke.
"Have you forgotten the duster that was over these things, Bunny?
Have you forgotten all. the other revolvers and life preservers that
there were to choose from? I chose most carefully, and I replaced
my relics with a mixed assortment of other people's which really
look just as well. The rope-ladder that now supplants mine is, of
course, no patch upon it, but coiled up on the chest it really looks
much the same. To be sure, there was no second velvet bag; but I
replaced my stick with another quite like it, and I even found an
empty cartridge to understudy the setting of the Polynesian pearl.
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