"But where did you stow the silver before you went?"

"Nowhere; it was my luggage - a portmanteau, cricket-bag, and
suit-case full of very little else - and by the same token I left
the lot at Euston, and one of us must fetch them this evening."

"I can do that," said I. "But did you really go all. the way to
Crewe?"

"Didn't you get my note? I went all. the way to Crewe to post you
those few lines, my dear Bunny! It's no use taking trouble if you
don't take trouble enough; I wanted you to show the proper set of
faces at the bank and elsewhere, and I know you did. Besides, there
was an up-train four minutes after mine got in. I simply posted my
letter in Crewe station, and changed from one train to the other."

"At two in the morning!"

"Nearer three, Bunny. It was after seven when I slung in with the
Daily Mail. The milk had beaten me by a short can. But even so I
had two very good hours before you were due."

"And to think," I murmured, "how you deceived me there!"

"With your own assistance," said Raffles laughing. "If you had
looked it up you would have seen there was no such train in the
morning, and I never said there was. But I meant you to be
deceived, Bunny, and I won't say I didn't - it was all. for the sake
of the side! Well, when you carted me away with such laudable