The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1906-01-25


good tenant in every way, and it's q
very useful little pied-a-terre. There's
no saying how useful it might be at a
pinch. AS 1t is, the billycock comes in
and the topped goes out, and nobody
takes the slightest notice of either, AT
this time of night the chances are that
there's not soul in the building ex-
cept ourselves"
You never told me you went in for
DISCUSSES" said |, watching him as lie
cleaned the CRIME from his face and
hands.
mo, Bunny, I've treated you very
shabbily al. around. There was really
no reason why l shouldn't have shown
you this place month ago, and yet
there was no point in my doing so, and
circumstances are just conceivable in
which it would have suited us both for
you to be in genuine ignorance of my
whereabouts. l have something to
sleep on. as you perceive, in case Of
need, and of course my name is not
Raffles in the Kings road So you will
see that one might bolt farther and
fare worse"
Meanwhile you use the place as a
dressing room?"
Its my private pavilion said Raj
fles. "Disguises? In some cases they
are half the battle, and It's always
pleasant to feel that If the worst comes
to the worst you needn't necessarily
be convicted under your own name.
Then they're Indispensable in dealing
with the fences. I drive all my bar
gains in the tongue and raiment Of
Shoreditch. If didn't there'd be the
very devil to pay in blackmail. Now,
this cupboards full of all sorts of toy
gerry. l tell the woman who cleans
the room that it's for my models when
find 'em. BY the way, l only hope
I've got something that'll fit you, for
you'll want a rig for tomorrow night"
Tomorrow night" exclaimed.
"Why, what do you mean to do?"
THE trick" said Raftles. II intend
ed writing to you as soon as | got back
to my rooms to ask you to look me
up tomorrow afternoon. Then I was
going to unfold my plan of campaign
and take you straight into action then
and there. There's nothing like put
ting the nervous players In first. It's
the sitting with their pads on that up
sets their apple cart. That was anoth-
er of my reasons for being so confound-
eddy close. You must try to forgive
me. couldn't help remembering how
we'll you played up last trip, without
any time to weaken on 1t beforehand.
All want is for you to be as cool and
smart tomorrow night as you were
then; though, by Jove, there's no COM
parison between the two cases.
II thought you would find it so.''
You We're right. have. Mind you,
don't say this will be the tougher Job
all round. We shall probably get In
without any difficulty at all; it's the
getting out again that may flummoN
us. That's the worst of an irregular
household cried Rafiies with quite Il
burst of virtuous indignation. II as
sure you, Bunny, l spent the whole of
Monday night in the shrubbery of the
garden next door, looking over the
wall, and, if you'll believe me, some
body was about all night long! don't
mean the kattirs. don't believe they
ever get to bed at all-poor devils!
No, | mean Rosenthall himself and
that pasty faced beast Purvis. They
were up and drinking from midnight,
when they came in, to broad daylight,
when l cleared out. Even then l left
them sober enough to slang each other.
BY the way, they very nearly came to
blows in the garden within Il few yards
of me, and l heard something that
might come in useful and make Rosen-
thall shoot crooked at Il critical mo-
ment. You know what an 1. ID. B. is?'
illicit diamond buyer?'
Exactly. Well. it seems that Rosen-
thall was one. He must have let it
out to Purvis in his cups. Anyhow,
heard Purvis haunting him with it and
threatening him with the breakwater
at Cape Town, and begin to think our
friends are friend and foe. But about
tomorrow night. There's nothing
subtle in my plan. It's simply to get
in while these fellows are out on the
loose and to lie low till they come
back, and longer. If possible we must
doctor the whisky. That would sim
plify the whole thing, though it's not
very sporting game to play. Still,
we must remember Rosenthall's re-
volver. We don't want him to sign his
name on us. With all those Kaffirs
about, however, it's ten to one OH the
whisky and hundred to one against
us if we go looking for it. A brush
with the heather would spoil every
thing. if it did no more. Besides, there
are the ladies'
THE deuce there are"'
Ladies with an i, and the very
voices for raising Cain. l fear, fear
the clamor! 1t would be fatal to us.
Au contraire, if we can manage to
stow ourselves away unbeknown half
the battle will be won. Ii Rosenthall
turns in drunk it's a purple diamond
apiece. If he sits up sober it may be
a bullet instead. We will hope not,
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