Raffles, Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman
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" And Raffles stopped, his candle held on high, a folding chair under the other arm. " No, I am not your, friend," replied Lord Ernest, easily ; " but kindly remain standing exactly where you are, and don't lower that candle an inch, unless you want your brains blown into the street." Raffles said never a word, but for a moment did as he was bid; and the un- shaken flame of the candle was testimony alike to the stillness of the night and to the finest set of nerves in Europe. Then, to my horror..., he coolly stooped, placing candle and chair on the leads, and his hands in his pockets, as though it were but a pop-gun that covered him. " ^yhy didn't you shoot ? " he asked in- solently as he rose. " Frightened of the noise? I should be, too, with an old- 179 Digitized by Google Raffles pattern machine like that. All very well for service in the field — ^but on the house- tops at dead of night ! " " I shall shoot, however," replied Lord Ernest, as quietly in his turn, and with less insolence, "and chance the noise, unless you instantly restore my property.
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