"
"Not necessarily, my dear Bunny, though I admit that the chances
are against us. Yet I'm not so sure of that either. There are
all sorts of possibilities in these three-cornered combinations.
Set A to watch B, and he won't have an eye left for C. That's
the obvious theory, but then Mackenzie's a very big A. I should
be sorry to have any boodle about me with that man in the house.
Yet it would be great to nip in between A and B and score off
them both at once! It would be worth a risk, Bunny, to do that;
it would be worth risking something merely to take on old hands
like B and his men at their own old game! Eh, Bunny? That would
be something like a match. Gentlemen and Players at single
wicket, by Jove!"
His eyes were brighter than I had known them for many a day.
They shone with the perverted enthusiasm which was roused in him
only by the contemplation of some new audacity. He kicked off
his shoes and began pacing his room with noiseless rapidity; not
since the night of the Old Bohemian dinner to Reuben Rosenthall
had Raffles exhibited such excitement in my presence; and I was
not sorry at the moment to be reminded of the fiasco to which
that banquet had been the prelude.
"My dear A. J.," said I in his very own tone, "you're far too
fond of the uphill game; you will eventually fall a victim to the
sporting spirit and nothing else.
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