He drinks too much beer to
sleep light, and nothing is so easy as to chloroform a heavy
sleeper; you've even done it yourself on an occasion of which
it's perhaps unfair to remind you. Von Heumann will be past
sensation almost as soon as I get my hand through his ventilator.
I shall crawl in over his body, Bunny, my boy!"
"And I?"
"You will hand me what I want and hold the fort in case of
accidents, and generally lend me the moral support you've made me
require. It's a luxury, Bunny, but I found it devilish difficult
to do without it after you turned pi!"
He said that Von Heumann was certain to sleep with a bolted door,
which he, of course, would leave unbolted, and spoke of other
ways of laying a false scent while rifling the cabin. Not that
Raffles anticipated a tiresome search. The pearl would be about
von Heumann's person; in fact, Raffles knew exactly where and in
what he kept it. Naturally I asked how he could have come by such
knowledge, and his answer led up to a momentary unpleasantness.
"It's a very old story, Bunny. I really forget in what Book it
comes; I'm only sure of the Testament. But Samson was the
unlucky hero, and one Delilah the heroine."
And he looked so knowing that I could not be in a moment's doubt
as to his meaning.
"So the fair Australian has been playing Delilah?" said I.
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