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10 - Mr Justice Raffles by E W Hornung · Mr. Justice Raffles

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  Speaker 1: E. W. Hornum, Chapter ten, My Raffles right or wrong,
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  Speaker 1: the historic sward had just been cleared for action. When
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  Speaker 1: Raffles and I met at Lord's next day, I blushed
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  Speaker 1: to own I had been knave and fool enough to
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  Speaker 1: suggest that he should smuggle me into the pavilion. But
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  Speaker 1: perhaps the only laws of man that Raffles really respected
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  Speaker 1: were those of the m c C. And it was
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  Speaker 1: in Block B that he joined me. A minute or
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  Speaker 1: so before eleven, the sun was as strong and the
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  Speaker 1: sky as blue, as though the disastrous day before had
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  Speaker 1: been just such another. But its tropical shower bath had
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  Speaker 1: left the London air as cleanly and as clear as crystal.
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  Speaker 1: The neutral tints of every day were splashes of vivid color.
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  Speaker 1: The waiting umpires animated snow men, the heap of sawdust
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  Speaker 1: at either end, a pyramid of powdered gold upon an
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  Speaker 1: emerald ground, and in the expectant hutch before the appearance
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  Speaker 1: of the fielding side, I still recall the Yorkshire accent
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  Speaker 1: of the Surrey poet hawking his latest lyric on some
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  Speaker 1: great stand by mister Webb and mister Stoddard, and incidentally
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  Speaker 1: assuring the crowds Cambridge was going to win because everybody
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  Speaker 1: said Oxford would. Just in time, said Raffles as he
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  Speaker 1: sat down, and the Cambridge men emerged from the pavilion,
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  Speaker 1: capped and sashed in varying shades of light blue. The
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  Speaker 1: captain's colors were bleached by service, but the wicket keepers
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  Speaker 1: were the newest and the bluest of the lot, and
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  Speaker 1: as a male historian, I shrink from saying how well
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  Speaker 1: they suited him. Teddy Garland looks as though nothing had happened,
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  Speaker 1: was what I said at the time, as I peered
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  Speaker 1: through my binocular at the padded figure with the pink
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  Speaker 1: face and the gigantic gloves. That's because he knows they're
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  Speaker 1: a chance of nothing more happening, was the reply. I've
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  Speaker 1: seen him and his poor old governor up here since
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  Speaker 1: I saw Dan Levy. I eagerly inquired as to the
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  Speaker 1: upshot of the earlier interview, but Raffles looked as though
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  Speaker 1: he had not heard. The Oxford captain had come out
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  Speaker 1: to open the innings with a player less known to fame.
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  Speaker 1: The first ball of the match hurtled down the pitch
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  Speaker 1: and the Oxford captain left it severely alone. Teddy took
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  Speaker 1: it charmingly, and almost with the same movement, the ball
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  Speaker 1: was back in the bowler's hands. He's all right, muttered
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  Speaker 1: Raffles with a long breath. So as our mister Shylock, Bunny,
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  Speaker 1: we fixed things up in no time after all. But
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  Speaker 1: the worst of it is I shall only be able
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  Speaker 1: to stop. He broke off, mouth open as it might
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  Speaker 1: have been mine. A ball had been driven hard to
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  Speaker 1: extra cover and quite well fielded. Another had been taken
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  Speaker 1: by Teddy as competently as the first, but not returned
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  Speaker 1: to the bowler. The Oxford captain had played at it,
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  Speaker 1: and we heard something even in Block B. How's that
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  Speaker 1: came almost simultaneously in Teddy's ringing voice. Up went the
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  Speaker 1: umpire's finger, and down came Raffles's hand upon my thigh.
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  Speaker 1: He's got him, bunny, he cried in my ear above
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  Speaker 1: the cambridge cheers. The best bat on either side, and
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  Speaker 1: Teddy's out at him third ball. He stopped to watch
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  Speaker 1: the defeated captain's slow return, the demonstration on the pitch
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  Speaker 1: in Teddy's honor. Then he touched me on the arm
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  Speaker 1: and dropped his voice. He's forgotten all his troubles now, bunny.
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  Speaker 1: If you like, nothing's going to worry him till lunch
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  Speaker 1: unless he misses a sitting chance, and he won't. You'll
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  Speaker 1: see a good start means even more behind the sticks
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  Speaker 1: than in front of him. Raffles was quite right. Another
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  Speaker 1: wicket fell cheaply in another way. Then came a long
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  Speaker 1: spell of plucky cricket, a stand not masterly but dogged
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  Speaker 1: and judicious, in which many a ball outside the off
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  Speaker 1: stump was allowed to pass unmolested, and a few were
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  Speaker 1: unfortunate in just beating the edge of the bat on
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  Speaker 1: the tricky wicket. Teddy's work was cut out for him,
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  Speaker 1: and beautifully he did it. It was a treat to
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  Speaker 1: see his lithe form, crouching behind the bales to rise
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  Speaker 1: next instant with the rising ball. His great gloves were
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  Speaker 1: always in the right place, always adhesive. Once only he
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  Speaker 1: held them up prematurely, and a fine ball brushed the
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  Speaker 1: wicket on its way for four byes. It was his
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  Speaker 1: sole error. All the morning, Raffles sat enchanted, so in
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  Speaker 1: truth did I, But between the overs I endeavored to
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  Speaker 1: obtain particulars of his latest parley with Dan Levy, and
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  Speaker 1: once or twice extracted a stray detail. The old Sinner
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  Speaker 1: has a place on the river, Bunny, though I have
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  Speaker 1: my suspicions of a second establishment nearer town. But I'm
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  Speaker 1: to find him at his law home all the next
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  Speaker 1: two nights and sitting up for em till two in
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  Speaker 1: the morning. Then you're going to graze Inn Square this week.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going there this morning for a peep at the crib.
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  Speaker 1: There's no time to be lost. But on the other hand,
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  Speaker 1: there's a devil of a lot to learn, I say, Bunny,
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  Speaker 1: there's going to be another change of bowling the fast
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  Speaker 1: stuff too. By jove, a mass of youth had taken
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  Speaker 1: the ball at the top end, and the wicket keeper
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  Speaker 1: was retiring to a more respectful distance behind the stumps.
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  Speaker 1: You'll let me know when it's to be, I whispered,
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  Speaker 1: But Raffles only answered I wonder Jack Studley didn't wait
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  Speaker 1: till there was more of a crust on the mud pie.
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  Speaker 1: That tripe's no use without a fast wicket. The technical
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  Speaker 1: slang of the modern cricket field is ever a weariness.
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  Speaker 1: At the moment it was something worse, and I resigned
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  Speaker 1: myself to the silent contemplation of as wild and over
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  Speaker 1: as ever was Bold at Lord's. A shocking thing to
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  Speaker 1: the off was set, skipping past point for four Tripe,
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  Speaker 1: muttered Raffles to himself. A very good one went over
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  Speaker 1: the bales and thud into Garland's gloves like a well bold,
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  Speaker 1: said Raffles, with less reserve. Another delivery was merely ignored,
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  Speaker 1: both at the wicket and at my side. And then
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  Speaker 1: came a high, full pitch to leg, which the batsmen
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  Speaker 1: hit hard but very late. It was a hit that
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  Speaker 1: might have smashed the pavilion palings, but it never reached them.
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  Speaker 1: It stuck in Teddy's left glove instead, and none of
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  Speaker 1: us knew it till we saw him staggering towards long
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  Speaker 1: leg and tossing up the ball as he recovered balance.
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  Speaker 1: That's the worst ball that ever took a wicket in
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  Speaker 1: this match, bowed a reverend Veteran as the din died down,
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  Speaker 1: and the best catch cried Raffles, Come on, Bunny, that's
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  Speaker 1: my milk de meetus for the day. There would be
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  Speaker 1: nothing to compare with it. If I could stop to
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  Speaker 1: see every ball, Bold, and I mustn't see another. But why,
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  Speaker 1: I asked, as I followed Raffles into the press behind
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  Speaker 1: the carriages. I've already told you why, said he. I
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  Speaker 1: got as close to him as one could in that crowd.
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  Speaker 1: You're not thinking of doing it to night, eh, Jaye.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, but you'll let me know, not if
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  Speaker 1: I can help it, Bunny didn't. I promise not to
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  Speaker 1: drag you any further through this particular mire. But if
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  Speaker 1: I can help you, I whispered, after a momentary separation
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  Speaker 1: in the throng. Oh if I can't get on without you,
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  Speaker 1: said Raffles, not nicely. I'll let you know fast enough,
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  Speaker 1: but do drop the subject. Now Here come Old Garland
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  Speaker 1: and Camilla bell Size. They did not see us quite
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  Speaker 1: so soon as we saw them, and for a moment
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  Speaker 1: one felt a spy. But it was an interesting moment,
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  Speaker 1: even to a person smarting from a snub. The ruined
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  Speaker 1: man looked haggard, ill, unfit to be about the very
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  Speaker 1: embodiment of the newspaper report concerning him, But the spirit
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  Speaker 1: beamed through the shrinking flesh. The poor old man was
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  Speaker 1: alight with pride and love, exultant in spite of himself
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  Speaker 1: and his misfortunes. Yet seen his boy's great catch, yet
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  Speaker 1: heard the cheers he would hear them till his dying hour.
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  Speaker 1: Camilla Belsize had also seen and heard, but not with
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  Speaker 1: the same exquisite appreciation. Cricket was again to her. It
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  Speaker 1: was not that quintessence an epitome of life, it would
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  Speaker 1: seem to be to some of its devotees. And real
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  Speaker 1: life was pressing so heavily upon her that the trivial
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  Speaker 1: consolation which had banished her companion's load could not lighten hers.
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  Speaker 1: So at least, I thought, as they approached, the man
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  Speaker 1: so worn and radiant, the girl so pensive for all
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  Speaker 1: her glorious youth and beauty, his was the old head
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  Speaker 1: bowed with sorrow. His also the simpler and the younger heart.
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  Speaker 1: That cats will console me for a lot, I heard
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  Speaker 1: him say, quite heartily to Raffles. But Camilla's comment was
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  Speaker 1: altogether perfumptory. Indeed, I wondered that so sophisticated a person
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  Speaker 1: did not effect some little enthusiasm. She seemed more interested, however,
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  Speaker 1: in the crowd than in the cricket, and that was
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  Speaker 1: usual enough. Raffles was already saying he must go, with
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  Speaker 1: an explanatory murmur to mister Garland, who clasped his hand
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  Speaker 1: with a suddenly clouded countenance, but Miss Belsize only bowed
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  Speaker 1: and scarcely took her eyes off a couple of outwardly
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  Speaker 1: inferior men who had attracted my attention through hers until
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  Speaker 1: they also passed out of the ground. Mister Garland was
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  Speaker 1: on tiptoes, watching the game again with mercurial ardor mister Manders,
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  Speaker 1: will look out after me, she said to him, won't you?
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  Speaker 1: Mister Manders, I made some suitable asseveration, and she added,
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  Speaker 1: mister Garland's a member, you know, and dying to go
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  Speaker 1: into the pavilion only just to hear what they think
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  Speaker 1: of Teddy. The poor old boy confessed, and when we
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  Speaker 1: had arranged where to meet in the interval, away he
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  Speaker 1: hurried with his keen worn face. Miss Belsize turned to
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  Speaker 1: me the moment he was gone. I want to speak
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  Speaker 1: to you, mister Manders, she said, quickly, but without embarrassment.
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  Speaker 1: Where can we talk and watch as well? I suggested,
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  Speaker 1: thinking of the young man at his best behind the sticks.
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  Speaker 1: I want to speak to you first, she said, where
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  Speaker 1: we shan't be overheard. It's about mister Raffles, added Miss
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  Speaker 1: Belsyee as she met my stare about raffles. Again, about raffles,
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  Speaker 1: after all that she had learned the day before. I
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  Speaker 1: did not enjoy the prospect. As I led the way
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  Speaker 1: past the ivy mantled tennis court of those days to
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  Speaker 1: the practice ground turned for the notts into a tented lawn.
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  Speaker 1: And what about raffles, I asked, as we struck out
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  Speaker 1: for ourselves across the grass. I'm afraid he's in some danger,
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  Speaker 1: replied Miss Belsize, And she stopped in her walk and
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  Speaker 1: confronted me as frankly as though we had the animated
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  Speaker 1: scene to ourselves. Danger, I repeated, guiltily enough, no doubt.
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  Speaker 1: What makes you think that, Miss Belsize, my companion hesitated
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  Speaker 1: for the first time. You won't tell him, I told you,
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  Speaker 1: mister Manders, not if you don't want me to, said,
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  Speaker 1: I taken aback more by her manner than by the
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  Speaker 1: request itself. You promised me that certainly. Then tell me
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  Speaker 1: did you notice two men who passed close to us
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  Speaker 1: just after we had all met? There are so many
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  Speaker 1: men to notice, said I to gain time. But these
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  Speaker 1: were not the sort one expects to see here to day.
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  Speaker 1: Did they wear bowlers and short coats? You did notice
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  Speaker 1: them only because I saw you watching them, said I,
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  Speaker 1: recalling the whole scene they wanted watching, rejoined Miss Belsize dryly.
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  Speaker 1: They followed mister Raffles out of the ground, so they did,
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  Speaker 1: I reflected aloud in my alarm. They were following you
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  Speaker 1: both when you met us, that dick and they were.
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  Speaker 1: Was that the first time you saw them? No, the
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  Speaker 1: first time was over there at the nets before play began.
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  Speaker 1: I noticed those two men behind Teddy's net. They were
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  Speaker 1: not watching him. That's what called my attention to them.
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  Speaker 1: It's my belief they were lying in wait for mister
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  Speaker 1: Raffles at any rate. When he came, they moved away,
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  Speaker 1: but they followed us afterwards across the ground. You are
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  Speaker 1: sure of that. I looked round to see, said Miss Belsize,
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  Speaker 1: avoiding my eyes for the first time. Did you think
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  Speaker 1: the men detectives? I forced a laugh. I was afraid
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  Speaker 1: they might be mister Manders, though I have never seen
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  Speaker 1: one off the stage. Still, I pursued with painfully sustained amusement.
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  Speaker 1: You were ready to find a j. Raffles being shadowed
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  Speaker 1: here at Lords of all places in the world. I
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  Speaker 1: was ready for anything anywhere, said miss Belsize, after all
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  Speaker 1: I heard yesterday afternoon, you mean about poor mister Garland
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  Speaker 1: and his affairs. It was an ingenuously disingenuous suggestion. It
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  Speaker 1: brought my companion's eyes back to mine with something of
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  Speaker 1: the scorn that I deserved. No, mister Manders, I meant
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  Speaker 1: after what we all heard between mister Levy and mister Raffles.
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  Speaker 1: And you knew very well what I meant, added Miss Belsize. Severely,
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  Speaker 1: but surely you didn't take all that seriously, said I,
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  Speaker 1: without denying the just impeachment. How could I help it?
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  Speaker 1: The insinuation was serious enough in all conscience, exclaimed Camella Bell'size.
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  Speaker 1: That is, said I, since she was not to be
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  Speaker 1: wilfully misunderstood that poor old Raffles had something to do
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  Speaker 1: with this duel robbery at Carlsbad, if it was a robbery,
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  Speaker 1: She winced at the word, do you mean it might
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  Speaker 1: have been a trick, said I, recalling the victim's own
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  Speaker 1: make believe at the Albany. And not only did Camilla
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  Speaker 1: appear to embrace that theory with open arms, she had
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  Speaker 1: the nerve to pretend that it really was what she
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  Speaker 1: had meant. Obviously, said she, with an impromptu superiority worthy
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  Speaker 1: of Raffles himself. I wonder you never thought of that,
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  Speaker 1: mister Manders, when you know what a trick you both played,
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  Speaker 1: mister Levee. Only yesterday mister Raffles himself told us all
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  Speaker 1: about that, And I'm very grateful to you both. You
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  Speaker 1: must know I am, for Teddy's sake, added Miss Bellsize,
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  Speaker 1: with one quick remorseful glance towards the Great Arena. Still,
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  Speaker 1: it only shows what mister Raffles is and and it's
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  Speaker 1: what I meant when we were talking about him yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: I don't remember, said I, remembering fast enough in the rockery,
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  Speaker 1: she reminded me. When you asked what people said about him,
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  Speaker 1: and I said that about living on his wits and
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  Speaker 1: being a paid amateur. But the other was the worst.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not so sure, said I. But his wits wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: carry him very far if he only took necklaces and
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  Speaker 1: put them back again. It was all a joke, she
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  Speaker 1: reminded us both, with a bit of a start. It
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  Speaker 1: must have been a joke if mister Raffles did it
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  Speaker 1: at all, and it would be dreadful if anything happened
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  Speaker 1: to him. Because of a wretched, practical joke. There was
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  Speaker 1: no mistake about her feeling. Now. She really felt that
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  Speaker 1: it would be dreadful if anything happened to the man
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  Speaker 1: whom yesterday she had seemed both to dislike and to distrust.
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  Speaker 1: Her voice vibrated with anxiety. A bright film covered the
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  Speaker 1: fine eyes, and they were finer than ever as they
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  Speaker 1: continued to face me, unashamed. But I was fool enough
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  Speaker 1: to speak my mind, and at that they flashed themselves dry.
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  Speaker 1: I thought she didn't like him, had been my remark,
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  Speaker 1: and who says I do was hers? But he has
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  Speaker 1: done a lot for Teddy, she went on, and never
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  Speaker 1: more than yesterday with her hand for an instant on
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  Speaker 1: my arm when you helped him. I'm dreadfully sorry for
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  Speaker 1: mister Garland, sorrier than I am for poor Teddy. But
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  Speaker 1: mister Raffles is more than sorry. I know he means
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  Speaker 1: to do what he can. He seems to think there
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  Speaker 1: must be something wrong. He spoke of bringing that brute
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  Speaker 1: to reason. It would be too dreadful if such a
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  Speaker 1: creature could turn the tables on mister Raffles by trumping
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  Speaker 1: up any charge against him. There was an absolute echo
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  Speaker 1: of my own tone in trumping up any charge, and
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  Speaker 1: I thought the echoes sounded even more insincere. But at
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  Speaker 1: least it showed me where we were. Miss Belsize was
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  Speaker 1: not deceived. She only wanted me to think she was.
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  Speaker 1: Miss Belsize had divined what I knew, but neither of
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  Speaker 1: us would admit to the other that the charge against
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  Speaker 1: Raffles would be true enough. But why should these men
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  Speaker 1: follow him? Said I really wondering why they should if
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  Speaker 1: there is anything definite against old Raffles. Don't you think
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  Speaker 1: he would be arrested? Oh, I don't know, was the
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  Speaker 1: slightly irritable answer. I only think he should be warned,
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  Speaker 1: and he is being followed whatever he has done, I ventured, yes,
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  Speaker 1: said she, whatever he has done, after what he did
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  Speaker 1: for Teddy yesterday. You want me to warn him, yes,
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  Speaker 1: but not from me. And suppose he really did take
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  Speaker 1: missus Levee's necklace. That's just what we are supposing. But
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  Speaker 1: suppose it wasn't for a joke at all. I spoke
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  Speaker 1: as when playfully plumbing the abysmally absurd. What I did
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  Speaker 1: desire to sound was the loyalty of this new, unexpected
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  Speaker 1: and still captious ally, and I thought myself strangely successful
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  Speaker 1: at the first cast. For Miss Bellsize looked me in
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  Speaker 1: the face as I was looking her, and I trusted
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  Speaker 1: her before she spoke well after yesterday, she said, I
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  Speaker 1: should warn him all the same. You would back your
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  Speaker 1: Raffles right or wrong, I murmured, perceiving that Camilla Belsize was,
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  Speaker 1: after all, like all the rest of us, against a
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  Speaker 1: vulgar extra er. Most decidedly, she returned, without repudiating the
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  Speaker 1: possessive pronoun. It doesn't follow that I think anything of
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  Speaker 1: him apart from what you did between you for Teddy yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: We had continued our stroll some time ago, and now
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  Speaker 1: it was I who stood still and looked at my watch.
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  Speaker 1: It still wanted some minutes to the luncheon interval. If
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  Speaker 1: Raffles took a cab to his rooms, I said, he
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  Speaker 1: must be nearly there, and I must telephone to him.
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  Speaker 1: Is there a call office on the ground only in
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  Speaker 1: the pavilion, I believe, for the use of the members.
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  Speaker 1: Then you must go to the nearest one outside. What
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  Speaker 1: about you, Miss Bells eyes brightened with her smile of
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  Speaker 1: perfect and unconscious independence. Oh, I shall be all right,
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  Speaker 1: she said, I know where to find mister Garland, even
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  Speaker 1: if I don't pick up an escort on the way.
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  Speaker 1: But it was she who escorted me to the tall
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  Speaker 1: turnstile nearest Wellington Road. And you do see why I
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  Speaker 1: want to put mister Raffles on his guard, she said pointedly,
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  Speaker 1: as we shook hands. It's only because you and he
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  Speaker 1: have done so much for Teddy, and because she did
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  Speaker 1: not end by reminding me of my promise, I was
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  Speaker 1: all the more reluctantly determined to keep it to the letter,
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  Speaker 1: even though Raffles should think as ill as ever of
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  Speaker 1: one who was at least beginning to think better of him.
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  Speaker 1: End of Chapter ten.