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If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: Recollections of Captain Wilkie - Story of An Old Offender - -Author: A. Conan Doyle - -Release Date: August 19, 2021 [eBook #66088] - -Language: English - -Produced by: Roger Frank and Sue Clark - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK RECOLLECTIONS OF CAPTAIN WILKIE *** - - - - - -RECOLLECTIONS OF CAPTAIN WILKIE - -A Story of an Old Offender - -By A. Conan Doyle. - - -“Who can he be?” thought I, as I watched my companion in the -second-class carriage of the London and Dover Railway. - -I had been so full of the fact that my long-expected holiday had -come at last, and that for a few days, at least, the gayeties of -Paris were about to supersede the dull routine of the hospital -wards, that we were well out of London before I observed that I was -not alone in the compartment. In these days we have all pretty well -agreed that “three is company and two is none” upon the railway. At -the time I write of, however, people were not so morbidly sensitive -about their travelling companions. It was rather an agreeable -surprise to me to find that there was some chance of whiling away -the hours of a tedious journey. I therefore pulled my cap down over -my eyes, took a good look from beneath it at my vis-a-vis, and -repeated to myself: “Who can he be?” - -I used rather to pride myself on being able to spot a man’s trade or -profession by a good look at his exterior. I had the advantage of -studying under a master of the art, who used to electrify both his -patients and his clinical classes by long shots, sometimes at the -most unlikely of pursuits; and never very far from the mark. “Well, -my man,” I have heard him say, “I can see by your fingers that you -play some musical instrument for your livelihood, but it is a rather -curious one; something quite out of my line.” The man afterwards -informed us that he earned a few coppers by blowing “Rule Britannia” -on a coffee-pot, the spout of which was pierced to form a rough -flute. Though a novice in the art, I was still able to astonish my -ward companions on occasion, and I never lost an opportunity of -practising. It was not mere curiosity, then, which led me to lean -back on the cushions and analyze the quiet middle-aged man in front -of me. - -I used to do the thing systematically, and my train of reflections -ran somewhat in this wise: “General appearance, vulgar; fairly -opulent and extremely self-possessed; looks like a man who could -out-chaff a bargee, and yet be at his ease in middle-class society. -Eyes well set together and nose rather prominent; would be a good -long-range marksman. Cheeks flabby, but the softness of expression -redeemed by a square-cut jaw and a well-set lower lip. On the whole, -a powerful type. Now for the hands—rather disappointed there. -Thought he was a self-made man by the look of him, but there is no -callous in the palm and no thickness at the joints. Has never been -engaged in any real physical work, I should think. No tanning on the -backs of the hands; on the contrary, they are very white, with blue -projecting veins and long, delicate fingers. Couldn’t be an artist -with that face, and yet he has the hands of a man engaged in -delicate manipulations. No red acid spots upon his clothes, no ink -stains, no nitrate of silver marks upon the hands (this helps to -negative my half-formed opinion that he was a photographer). Clothes -not worn in any particular part. Coat made of tweed, and fairly old; -but the left elbow, as far as I can see it, has as much of the fluff -left on as the right, which is seldom the case with men who do much -writing. Might be a commercial traveller, but the little pocketbook -in the waistcoat is wanting, nor has he any of those handy valises -suggestive of samples.” - -I give these brief headings of my ideas merely to demonstrate my -method of arriving at a conclusion. As yet I had obtained nothing -but negative results; but now, to use a chemical metaphor, I was in -a position to pour off this solution of dissolved possibilities and -examine the residue. I found myself reduced to a very limited number -of occupations. He was neither a lawyer nor a clergyman, in spite of -a soft felt hat, and a somewhat clerical cut about the necktie. I -was wavering now between pawnbroker and horsedealer; but there was -too much character about his face for the former, and he lacked that -extraordinary equine atmosphere which hangs about the latter even in -his hours of relaxation; so I formed a provisional diagnosis of -betting man of methodistical persuasions, the latter clause being -inserted in deference to his hat and necktie. - -Pray, do not think that I reasoned it out like this in my own mind. -It is only now, sitting down with pen and paper, that I can see the -successive steps. As it was, I had formed my conclusion within sixty -seconds of the time when I drew my hat down over my eyes and uttered -the mental ejaculation with which my narrative begins. - -I did not feel quite satisfied even then with my deduction. However, -as a leading question would—to pursue my chemical analogy—act as -my litmus paper, I determined to try one. There was a “Times” lying -by my companion, and I thought the opportunity too good to be -neglected. - -“Do you mind my looking at your paper?” I asked. - -“Certainly, sir, certainly,” said he most urbanely, handing it -across. - -I glanced down its columns until my eye rested upon the list of the -latest betting. - -“Hullo!” I said, “they are laying odds upon the favorite for the -Cambridgeshire. But perhaps,” I added, looking up, “you are not -interested in these matters?” - -“Snares, sir!” said he violently; “wiles of the enemy! Mortals are -but given a few years to live; how can they squander them so? They -have not even an eye to their poor worldly interests,” he added in a -quieter tone, “or they would never back a single horse at such short -odds with a field of thirty.” - -There was something in this speech of his which tickled me -immensely. I suppose it was the odd way in which he blended -religious intolerance with worldly wisdom. I laid the “Times” aside -with the conviction that I should be able to spend the next two -hours to better purpose than in its perusal. - -“You speak as if you understood the matter, at any rate,” I -remarked. - -“Yes, sir,” he answered; “few men in England understood these things -better in the old days before I changed my profession. But that is -all over now.” - -“Changed your profession?” said I, interrogatively. - -“Yes; I changed my name, too.” - -“Indeed?” said I. - -“Yes; you see, a man wants a real fresh start when his eyes become -opened, so he has a new deal all round, so to speak. Then he gets a -fair chance.” There was a short pause here, as I seemed to be on -delicate ground in touching on my companion’s antecedents, and he -did not volunteer any information. I broke the silence by offering -him a cheroot. - -“No, thanks,” said he; “I have given up tobacco. It was the hardest -wrench of all, was that. It does me good to smell the whiff of your -weed. Tell me,” he added suddenly, looking hard at me with his -shrewd gray eyes, “why did you take stock of me so carefully before -you spoke?” - -“It is a habit of mine,” said I. “I am a medical man, and -observation is everything in my profession. I had no idea you were -looking.” - -“I can see without looking,” he answered. “I thought you were a -detective, at first; but I couldn’t recall your face at the time I -knew the force.” - -“Were you a detective, then?” said I. - -“No,” he answered, with a laugh; “I was the other thing—the -detected, you know. Old scores are wiped out now, and the law cannot -touch me; so I don’t mind confessing to a gentleman like yourself -what a scoundrel I have been in my time.” - -“We are none of us perfect,” said I. - -“No; but I was a real out-and-outer. A ‘fake,’ you know, to start -with, and afterwards a ‘cracksman.’ It is easy to talk of these -things now, for I’ve changed my spirit. It’s as if I was talking of -some other man, you see.” - -“Exactly so,” said I. Being a medical man, I had none of that -shrinking from crime and criminals which many men possess. I could -make all allowances for congenital influence and the force of -circumstances. No company, therefore, could have been more -acceptable to me than that of the old malefactor; and as I sat -puffing at my cigar, I was delighted to observe that my air of -interest was gradually loosening his tongue. - -“Yes; I’m converted now,” he continued, “and of course I am a -happier man for that. And yet,” he added wistfully, “there are times -when I long for the old trade again, and fancy myself strolling out -on a cloudy night with my jimmy in my pocket. I left a name behind -me in my profession, sir. I was one of the old school, you know. It -was very seldom that we bungled a job. We used to begin at the foot -of the ladder, the rope ladder, if I may say so, in my younger days, -and then work our way up, step by step, so that we were what you -might call good men all through.” - -“I see,” said I. - -“I was always reckoned a hard-working, conscientious man, and had -talent, too; the very cleverest of them allowed that. I began as a -blacksmith, and then did a little engineering and carpentering, and -then I took to sleight-of-hand tricks, and then to picking pockets. -I remember, when I was home on a visit, how my poor old father used -to wonder why I was always hovering around him. He little knew that -I used to clear everything out of his pockets a dozen times a day, -and then replace them, just to keep my hand in. He believes to this -day that I am in an office in the City. There are few of them could -touch me in that particular line of business, though.” - -“I suppose it is a matter of practice?” I remarked. - -“To a great extent. Still, a man never quite loses it, if he has -once been an adept—excuse me; you have dropped some cigar ash on -your coat,” and he waved his hand politely in front of my breast, as -if to brush it off. “There,” he said, handing me my gold scarf pin, -“you see I have not forgot my old cunning yet.” - -He had done it so quickly that I hardly saw the hand whisk over my -bosom, nor did I feel his fingers touch me, and yet there was the -pin glittering in his hand. “It is wonderful,” I said as I fixed it -again in its place. - -“Oh, that’s nothing! But I have been in some really smart jobs. I -was in the gang that picked the new patent safe. You remember the -case. It was guaranteed to resist anything; and we managed to open -the first that was ever issued, within a week of its appearance. It -was done with graduated wedges, sir, the first so small that you -could hardly see it against the light, and the last strong enough to -prize it open. It was a clever managed affair.” - -“I remember it,” said I. “But surely some one was convicted for -that?” - -“Yes, one was nabbed. But he didn’t split, nor even let on how it -was done. We’d have cut his soul out if—” He suddenly damped down -the very ugly fires which were peeping from his eyes. “Perhaps I am -boring you, talking about these old wicked days of mine?” - -“On the contrary,” I said, “you interest me extremely.” - -“I like to get a listener I can trust. It’s a sort of blow-off, you -know, and I feel lighter after it. When I am among my brethren I -dare hardly think of what has gone before. Now I’ll tell you about -another job I was in. To this day, I cannot think about it without -laughing.” - -I lit another cigar, and composed myself to listen. - -“It was when I was a youngster,” said he. “There was a big City man -in those days who was known to have a very valuable gold watch. I -followed him about for several days before I could get a chance; but -when I did get one, you may be sure I did not throw it away. He -found, to, his disgust, when he got home that day, that there was -nothing in his fob. I hurried off with my prize, and got it stowed -away in safety, intending to have it melted down next day. Now, it -happened that this watch possessed a special value in the owner’s -eyes because it was a sort of ancestral possession—presented by his -father on coming of age, or something of that sort. I remember there -was a long inscription on the back. He was determined not to lose it -if he could help it, and accordingly he put an advertisement in an -evening paper, offering thirty pounds reward for its return, and -promising that no questions should be asked. He gave the address of -his house, 31 Caroline Square, at the end of the advertisement. The -thing sounded good enough, so I set off for Caroline Square, leaving -the watch in a parcel at a public house which I passed on the way. -When I got there, the gentleman was at dinner; but he came out quick -enough when he heard that a young man wanted to see him. I suppose -he guessed who the young man would prove to be. He was a -genial-looking old fellow, and he led me away with him into his -study. - -“‘Well, my lad,’ said he, ‘what is it?’ - -“‘I’ve come about that watch of yours,’ said I. ‘I think I can lay -my hands on it.’ - -“‘Oh, it was you that took it!’ said he. - -“‘No,’ I answered; ‘I know nothing whatever about how you lost it. I -have been sent by another party to see you about it. Even if you -have me arrested you will not find out anything.’ - -“‘Well,’ he said, ‘I don’t want to be hard on you. Hand it over, and -here is my check for the amount.’ - -“‘Checks won’t do,’ said I; ‘I must have it in gold.’ - -“‘It would take an hour or so to collect in gold,’ said he. - -“‘That will just suit,’ I answered, ‘for I have not got the watch -with me. I’ll go back and fetch it, while you raise the money.’ - -“I started off and got the watch where I had left it. When I came -back, the old gentleman was sitting behind his study table, with the -little heap of gold in front of him. - -“‘Here is your money,’ he said, and pushed it over. - -“‘Here is your watch,’ said I. - -“He was evidently delighted to get it back; and after examining it -carefully, and assuring himself that it was none the worse, he put -it into the watch-pocket of his coat with a grunt of satisfaction. - -“‘Now, my lad,’ he said, ‘I know it was you that took the watch. -Tell me how you did it, and I don’t mind giving you an extra -five-pound note.’ - -“‘I wouldn’t tell you in any case,’ said I; ‘but especially I -wouldn’t tell you when you have a witness hid behind that curtain.’ -You see, I had all my wits about me, and it didn’t escape me that -the curtain was drawn tighter than it had been before. - -“‘You are too sharp for us,’ said he, good-humoredly. ‘Well, you -have got your money, and that’s an end of it. I’ll take precious -good care you don’t get hold of my watch again in a hurry. Good -night—no; not that door,’ he added as I marched towards a cupboard. -‘This is the door,’ and he stood up and opened it. I brushed past -him, opened the hall door, and was round the corner of the square in -no time. I don’t know how long the old gentleman took to find it -out, but in passing him at the door, I managed to pick his pocket -for the second time, and next morning the family heirloom was in the -melting-pot, after all. That wasn’t bad, was it?’” - -The old war-horse had evidently forgotten all about his conversion -now. There was a tone of triumph in the conclusion of his anecdote -which showed that his pride in his smartness far surpassed his -repentance of his misdeeds. He seemed pleased at the astonishment -and amusement I expressed at his adroitness. - -“Yes,” he continued with a laugh, “it was a capital joke. But -sometimes the fun lies all the other way. Even the sharpest of us -come to grief at times. There was one rather curious incident which -occurred in my career. You may possibly have seen the anecdote, for -it got into print at the time.” - -“Pray let me hear it,” said I. - -“Well, it is hard lines telling stories against one’s self, but this -was how it happened: I had made a rather good haul, and invested -some of the swag in buying a very fine diamond ring. I thought it -would be something to fall back upon when all the ready was gone and -times were hard. I had just purchased it, and was going back to my -lodgings in the omnibus, when, as luck would have it, a very -stylishly-dressed young lady came in and took her seat beside me. I -didn’t pay much attention to her at first; but after a time -something hard in her dress knocked up against my hand, which my -experienced touch soon made out to be a purse. It struck me that I -could not pass the time more profitably or agreeably than by making -this purse my own. I had to do it very carefully; but I managed at -last to wriggle my hand into her rather light pocket, and I thought -the job was over. Just at this moment she rose abruptly to leave the -’bus, and I had hardly time to get my hand with the purse in it out -of her pocket without detection. It was not until she had been gone -some time that I found out that in drawing out my hand in that -hurried manner the new and ill-fitting ring had slipped over my -finger and remained in the young lady’s pocket. I sprang out and ran -in the direction in which she had gone with the intention of picking -her pocket once again. She had disappeared, however; and from that -day till this I have never set eyes on her. To make the matter -worse, there was only four pence half-penny in coppers inside the -purse. Sarve me right for trying to rob such a pretty girl; still, -if I had that two hundred quid now I should not be reduced to—Good -heavens, forgive me! What am I saying?” - -He seemed inclined to relapse into silence after this; but I was -determined to draw him out a little more, if I could possibly manage -it. “There is less personal risk in the branch you have been talking -of,” I remarked, “than there is in burglary.” - -“Ah!” he said, warming to his subject once again, “it is the higher -game which is best worth aiming at. Talk about sport, sir, talk -about fishing or hunting! Why, it is tame in comparison! Think of -the great country house with its men-servants and its dogs and its -firearms, and you with only your jimmy and your centre bit, and your -mother wit, which is best of all. It is the triumph of intellect -over brute force, sir, as represented by bolts and bars.” - -“People generally look upon it as quite the reverse,” I remarked. - -“I was never one of those blundering life-preserver fellows,” said -my companion. “I did try my hand at garroting once; but it was -against my principles, and I gave it up. I have tried everything. I -have been a bedridden widow with three young children; but I do -object to physical force.” - -“You have been what?” said I. - -“A bedridden widow. Advertising, you know, and getting -subscriptions. I have tried them all. You seem interested in these -experiences,” he continued, “so I will tell you another anecdote. It -was the narrowest escape from penal servitude that ever I had in my -life. A pal and I had gone down on a country beat—it doesn’t -signify where it was—and taken up our headquarters in a little -provincial town. Somehow it got noised abroad that we were there, -and householders were warned to be careful, as suspicious characters -had been seen in the neighborhood. We should have changed our plans -when we saw the game was up; but my chum was a plucky fellow, and -wouldn’t consent to back down. Poor little Jim! He was only -thirty-four round the chest, and about twelve at the biceps; but -there is not a measuring-tape in England could have given the size -of his heart. He said we were in for it, and we must stick to it; so -I agreed to stay, and we chose Morley Hall, the country house of a -certain Colonel Morley, to begin with. - -“Now this Colonel Morley was about the last man in the world that we -should have meddled with. He was a shrewd, cool-headed fellow, who -had knocked about and seen the world, and it seems that he took a -special pride in the detection of criminals. However, we knew -nothing of all this at that time; so we set forth hopefully to have -a try at the house. - -“The reason that made us pick him out among the rest was that he had -a good-for-nothing groom, who was a tool in our hands. This fellow -had drawn up a rough plan of the premises for us. The place was -pretty well locked up and guarded, and the only weak point we could -see was a certain trap-door, the padlock of which was broken, and -which opened from the roof into one of the lumber-rooms. If we could -only find any method of reaching the roof, we might force a way -securely from above. We both thought the plan rather a good one and -it had a spice of originality about it which pleased us. It is not -the mere jewels or plate, you know, that a good cracksman thinks -about. The neatness of the job and his reputation for smartness are -almost as important in his eyes. - -“We had been very quiet for a day or two, just to let suspicion die -away. Then we set out one dark night, Jim and I, and got over the -avenue railings and up to the house without meeting a soul. It was -blowing hard, I remember, and the clouds were hurrying across the -sky. We had a good look at the front of the house; and then Jim went -round to the garden side. He came running back in a minute or two in -a great state of delight. ‘Why, Bill,’ he said, gripping me by the -arm, ‘there never was such a bit of luck! They’ve been repairing the -roof or something, and they’ve left the ladder standing.’ We went -round together, and there, sure enough, was the ladder towering -above our heads, and one or two laborers’ hods lying about, which -showed that some work had been going on during the day. We had a -good look round, to see that everything was quiet, and then we -climbed up, Jim first and I after him. We got to the top, and were -sitting on the slates, having a bit of a breather before beginning -business, when you can fancy our feelings to see the ladder that we -came up by suddenly stand straight up in the air, and then slowly -descend until it rested in the garden below. At first we hoped it -might have slipped, though that was bad enough; but we soon had that -idea put out of our heads. - -“‘Hullo, up there!’ cried a voice from below. - -“We craned our heads over the edge, and there was a man, dressed, as -far as we could make out, in evening dress, and standing in the -middle of the grass plot. We kept quiet. - -“‘Hullo!’ he shouted again. ‘How do you feel yourself? Pretty -comfortable, eh? Ha! ha! You London rogues thought we were green in -the country. What’s your opinion now?’ - -“We both lay still, though feeling pretty considerably small, as you -may imagine. - -“‘It’s all right; I see you.’ he continued. - -“‘Why, I have been waiting behind that lilac bush every night for -the last week, expecting to see you. I knew you couldn’t resist -going up that ladder, when you found the windows were too much for -you.—Joe! Joe!’ - -“‘Yes, sir,’ said a voice, and another man came from among the -bushes. - -“‘Just you keep your eye on the roof, will you, while I ride down to -the station and fetch up a couple of constables?—_Au revoir_, -gentlemen! You don’t mind waiting, I suppose?’ And Colonel -Morley—for it was the owner of the house himself—strode off; and -in a few minutes we heard the rattle of his horse’s hoofs going down -the avenue. - -“Well, sir, we felt precious silly, as you may imagine. It wasn’t so -much having been nabbed that bothered us, as the feeling of being -caught in such a simple trap. We looked at each other in blank -disgust, and then, to save our lives, we couldn’t help bursting into -laughter at our own fix. However, it was no laughing matter; so we -set to work going around the roof, and seeing if there was a likely -water-pipe or anything that might give us a chance of escape. We had -to give it up as a bad job; so we sat down again, and made up our -minds to the worst. Suddenly an idea flashed into my head, and I -groped my way over the roof until I felt wood under my feet. I bent -down and found that the colonel had actually forgotten to secure the -padlock! You will often notice, as you go through life, that it is -the shrewdest and most cunning man who falls into the most absurd -mistakes; and this was an example of it. You may guess that we did -not lose much time, for we expected to hear the constables every -moment. We dropped through into the lumber-room, slipped downstairs, -tore open the library shutters, and were out and away before the -astonished groom could make out what had happened. There wasn’t time -enough to take any little souvenir with us, worse luck. I should -have liked to have seen the colonel’s face when he came back with -the constables and found that the birds were flown.” - -“Did you ever come across the colonel again?” I asked. - -“Yes; we skinned him of every bit of plate he had, down to the -salt-spoons, a few years later. It was partly out of revenge, you -see, that we did it. It was a very well-managed and daring thing, -one of the best I ever saw, and all done in open daylight, too.” - -“How in the world did you do it?” I asked. - -“Well, there were three of us in it—Jim was one—and we set about -it in this way: We wanted to begin by getting the colonel out of the -way, so I wrote him a note purporting to come from Squire -Brotherwick, who lived about ten miles away, and was not always on -the best of terms with the master of Morley Hall. I dressed myself -up as a groom, and delivered the note myself. It was to the effect -that the squire thought he was able to lay his hands on the -scoundrels who had escaped from the colonel a couple of years -before, and that if the colonel would ride over they would have -little difficulty in securing them. I was sure that this would have -the desired effect; so, after handing it in, and remarking that I -was the squire’s groom, I walked off again, as if on the way back to -my master’s. - -“After getting out of sight of the house, I crouched down behind a -hedge; and, as I expected, in less than a quarter of an hour the -colonel came swinging past me on his chestnut mare. Now, there is -another accomplishment I possess which I have not mentioned to you -yet, and that is, that I can copy any handwriting that I see. It is -a very easy trick to pick up if you only give your mind to it. I -happened to have come across one of Colonel Morley’s letters some -days before, and I can write so that even now I defy an expert to -detect a difference between the hands. This was a great assistance -to me now, for I tore a leaf out of my pocketbook and wrote -something to this effect: - - “‘As Squire Brotherwick has seen some suspicious characters - about, and the house may be attempted again, I have sent down to - the bank, and ordered them to send up their bank-cart to convey - the whole of the plate to a place of safety. It will save us a - good deal of anxiety to know that it is in absolute security. - Have it packed up and ready, and give the bearer a glass of beer.’ - -“Having composed this precious epistle, I addressed it to the -butler, and carried it back to the Hall, saying that their master -had overtaken me on the way and asked me to deliver it. I was taken -in and made much of downstairs, while a great packing case was -dragged into the hall, and the plate stowed away, among cotton-wool -and stuffing. It was nearly ready, when I heard the sound of wheels -upon the gravel, and sauntered round just in time to see a -business-like closed car drive up to the door. One of my pals was -sitting very demurely on the box, while Jim, with an official -looking hat, sprang out and bustled into the hall. - -“‘Now then,’ I heard him say, ‘look sharp! What’s for the bank? Come -on!’ - -“‘Wait a minute, sir,’ said the butler. - -“‘Can’t wait. There’s a panic all over the country, and they are -clamoring for us everywhere. Must drive on to Lord Blackbury’s -place, unless you are ready.’ - -“‘Don’t go, sir!’ pleaded the butler. ‘There’s only this one rope to -tie. There, it is ready now. You’ll look after it, won’t you?’ - -“‘That we will. You’ll never have any more trouble with it now,’ -said Jim, helping to push the great case into the car. - -“‘I think I had better go with you and see it stowed away in the -bank,’ said the butler. - -“‘All right,’ said Jim, nothing abashed. ‘You can’t come in the car, -though, for Lord Blackbury’s box will take up all the spare room. -Let’s see; it’s twelve o’clock now. Well, you be waiting at the bank -door at half-past one, and you will just catch us.’ - -“‘All right; half-past one,’ said the butler. - -“‘Good-day,’ cried my chum; and away went the car, while I made a -bit of a short cut and caught it around a turn of the road. We drove -right off into the next county, got a down-train to London, and -before midnight the colonel’s silver was fused into a solid lump.” - -I could not help laughing at the versatility of the old scoundrel. -“It was a daring game to play,” I said. - -“It is always the daring game which succeeds best,” he answered. - -At this point the train began to show symptoms of slowing down, and -my companion put on his overcoat and gave other signs of being near -the end of his journey. - -“You are going on to Dover?” he said. - -“Yes.” - -“For the Continent?” - -“Yes.” - -“How long do you intend to travel?” - -“Only for a week or so.” - -“Well, I must leave you here. You will remember my name, won’t you? -John Wilkie. I am pleased to have met you. Is my umbrella behind -you?” he added, stretching across. “No; I beg your pardon. Here it -is in the corner;” and with an affable smile, the ex-cracksman -stepped out, bowed, and disappeared among the crowd upon the -platform. - -I lit another cigar, laughed as I thought of my late companion, and -lifted up the “Times,” which he had left behind him. The bell had -rung, the wheels were already revolving, when, to my astonishment, a -pallid face looked in at me through the window. It was so contorted -and agitated that I hardly recognized the features which I had been -gazing upon during the last couple of hours. “Here, take it,” he -said, “take it. It’s hardly worth my while to rob you of seven -pounds four shillings, but I couldn’t resist once more trying my -hand;” and he flung something into the carriage and disappeared. - -It was my old leather purse, with my return ticket, and the whole of -my travelling expenses. 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Conan Doyle. -</div> - -<p>“Who can he be?” thought I, as I watched my companion in the -second-class carriage of the London and Dover Railway.</p> - -<p>I had been so full of the fact that my long-expected holiday had come -at last, and that for a few days, at least, the gayeties of Paris were -about to supersede the dull routine of the hospital wards, that we were -well out of London before I observed that I was not alone in the -compartment. In these days we have all pretty well agreed that “three is -company and two is none” upon the railway. At the time I write of, -however, people were not so morbidly sensitive about their travelling -companions. It was rather an agreeable surprise to me to find that there -was some chance of whiling away the hours of a tedious journey. I -therefore pulled my cap down over my eyes, took a good look from beneath -it at my vis-a-vis, and repeated to myself: “Who can he be?”</p> - -<p>I used rather to pride myself on being able to spot a man’s trade or -profession by a good look at his exterior. I had the advantage of -studying under a master of the art, who used to electrify both his -patients and his clinical classes by long shots, sometimes at the most -unlikely of pursuits; and never very far from the mark. “Well, my man,” -I have heard him say, “I can see by your fingers that you play some -musical instrument for your livelihood, but it is a rather curious one; -something quite out of my line.” The man afterwards informed us that he -earned a few coppers by blowing “Rule Britannia” on a coffee-pot, the -spout of which was pierced to form a rough flute. Though a novice in the -art, I was still able to astonish my ward companions on occasion, and I -never lost an opportunity of practising. It was not mere curiosity, -then, which led me to lean back on the cushions and analyze the quiet -middle-aged man in front of me.</p> - -<p>I used to do the thing systematically, and my train of reflections -ran somewhat in this wise: “General appearance, vulgar; fairly opulent -and extremely self-possessed; looks like a man who could out-chaff a -bargee, and yet be at his ease in middle-class society. Eyes well set -together and nose rather prominent; would be a good long-range marksman. -Cheeks flabby, but the softness of expression redeemed by a square-cut -jaw and a well-set lower lip. On the whole, a powerful type. Now for the -hands—rather disappointed there. Thought he was a self-made man by the -look of him, but there is no callous in the palm and no thickness at the -joints. Has never been engaged in any real physical work, I should -think. No tanning on the backs of the hands; on the contrary, they are -very white, with blue projecting veins and long, delicate fingers. -Couldn’t be an artist with that face, and yet he has the hands of a man -engaged in delicate manipulations. No red acid spots upon his clothes, -no ink stains, no nitrate of silver marks upon the hands (this helps to -negative my half-formed opinion that he was a photographer). Clothes not -worn in any particular part. Coat made of tweed, and fairly old; but the -left elbow, as far as I can see it, has as much of the fluff left on as -the right, which is seldom the case with men who do much writing. Might -be a commercial traveller, but the little pocketbook in the waistcoat is -wanting, nor has he any of those handy valises suggestive of -samples.”</p> - -<p>I give these brief headings of my ideas merely to demonstrate my -method of arriving at a conclusion. As yet I had obtained nothing but -negative results; but now, to use a chemical metaphor, I was in a -position to pour off this solution of dissolved possibilities and -examine the residue. I found myself reduced to a very limited number of -occupations. He was neither a lawyer nor a clergyman, in spite of a soft -felt hat, and a somewhat clerical cut about the necktie. I was wavering -now between pawnbroker and horsedealer; but there was too much character -about his face for the former, and he lacked that extraordinary equine -atmosphere which hangs about the latter even in his hours of relaxation; -so I formed a provisional diagnosis of betting man of methodistical -persuasions, the latter clause being inserted in deference to his hat -and necktie.</p> - -<p>Pray, do not think that I reasoned it out like this in my own mind. -It is only now, sitting down with pen and paper, that I can see the -successive steps. As it was, I had formed my conclusion within sixty -seconds of the time when I drew my hat down over my eyes and uttered the -mental ejaculation with which my narrative begins.</p> - -<p>I did not feel quite satisfied even then with my deduction. However, -as a leading question would—to pursue my chemical analogy—act as my -litmus paper, I determined to try one. There was a “Times” lying by my -companion, and I thought the opportunity too good to be neglected.</p> - -<p>“Do you mind my looking at your paper?” I asked.</p> - -<p>“Certainly, sir, certainly,” said he most urbanely, handing it -across.</p> - -<p>I glanced down its columns until my eye rested upon the list of the -latest betting.</p> - -<p>“Hullo!” I said, “they are laying odds upon the favorite for the -Cambridgeshire. But perhaps,” I added, looking up, “you are not -interested in these matters?”</p> - -<p>“Snares, sir!” said he violently; “wiles of the enemy! Mortals are -but given a few years to live; how can they squander them so? They have -not even an eye to their poor worldly interests,” he added in a quieter -tone, “or they would never back a single horse at such short odds with a -field of thirty.”</p> - -<p>There was something in this speech of his which tickled me immensely. -I suppose it was the odd way in which he blended religious intolerance -with worldly wisdom. I laid the “Times” aside with the conviction that I -should be able to spend the next two hours to better purpose than in its -perusal.</p> - -<p>“You speak as if you understood the matter, at any rate,” I -remarked.</p> - -<p>“Yes, sir,” he answered; “few men in England understood these things -better in the old days before I changed my profession. But that is all -over now.”</p> - -<p>“Changed your profession?” said I, interrogatively.</p> - -<p>“Yes; I changed my name, too.”</p> - -<p>“Indeed?” said I.</p> - -<p>“Yes; you see, a man wants a real fresh start when his eyes become -opened, so he has a new deal all round, so to speak. Then he gets a fair -chance.” There was a short pause here, as I seemed to be on delicate -ground in touching on my companion’s antecedents, and he did not -volunteer any information. I broke the silence by offering him a -cheroot.</p> - -<p>“No, thanks,” said he; “I have given up tobacco. It was the hardest -wrench of all, was that. It does me good to smell the whiff of your -weed. Tell me,” he added suddenly, looking hard at me with his shrewd -gray eyes, “why did you take stock of me so carefully before you -spoke?”</p> - -<p>“It is a habit of mine,” said I. “I am a medical man, and observation -is everything in my profession. I had no idea you were looking.”</p> - -<p>“I can see without looking,” he answered. “I thought you were a -detective, at first; but I couldn’t recall your face at the time I knew -the force.”</p> - -<p>“Were you a detective, then?” said I.</p> - -<p>“No,” he answered, with a laugh; “I was the other thing—the detected, -you know. Old scores are wiped out now, and the law cannot touch me; so -I don’t mind confessing to a gentleman like yourself what a scoundrel I -have been in my time.”</p> - -<p>“We are none of us perfect,” said I.</p> - -<p>“No; but I was a real out-and-outer. A ‘fake,’ you know, to start -with, and afterwards a ‘cracksman.’ It is easy to talk of these things -now, for I’ve changed my spirit. It’s as if I was talking of some other -man, you see.”</p> - -<p>“Exactly so,” said I. Being a medical man, I had none of that -shrinking from crime and criminals which many men possess. I could make -all allowances for congenital influence and the force of circumstances. -No company, therefore, could have been more acceptable to me than that -of the old malefactor; and as I sat puffing at my cigar, I was delighted -to observe that my air of interest was gradually loosening his -tongue.</p> - -<p>“Yes; I’m converted now,” he continued, “and of course I am a happier -man for that. And yet,” he added wistfully, “there are times when I long -for the old trade again, and fancy myself strolling out on a cloudy -night with my jimmy in my pocket. I left a name behind me in my -profession, sir. I was one of the old school, you know. It was very -seldom that we bungled a job. We used to begin at the foot of the -ladder, the rope ladder, if I may say so, in my younger days, and then -work our way up, step by step, so that we were what you might call good -men all through.”</p> - -<p>“I see,” said I.</p> - -<p>“I was always reckoned a hard-working, conscientious man, and had -talent, too; the very cleverest of them allowed that. I began as a -blacksmith, and then did a little engineering and carpentering, and then -I took to sleight-of-hand tricks, and then to picking pockets. I -remember, when I was home on a visit, how my poor old father used to -wonder why I was always hovering around him. He little knew that I used -to clear everything out of his pockets a dozen times a day, and then -replace them, just to keep my hand in. He believes to this day that I am -in an office in the City. There are few of them could touch me in that -particular line of business, though.”</p> - -<p>“I suppose it is a matter of practice?” I remarked.</p> - -<p>“To a great extent. Still, a man never quite loses it, if he has once -been an adept—excuse me; you have dropped some cigar ash on your coat,” -and he waved his hand politely in front of my breast, as if to brush it -off. “There,” he said, handing me my gold scarf pin, “you see I have not -forgot my old cunning yet.”</p> - -<p>He had done it so quickly that I hardly saw the hand whisk over my -bosom, nor did I feel his fingers touch me, and yet there was the pin -glittering in his hand. “It is wonderful,” I said as I fixed it again in -its place.</p> - -<p>“Oh, that’s nothing! But I have been in some really smart jobs. I was -in the gang that picked the new patent safe. You remember the case. It -was guaranteed to resist anything; and we managed to open the first that -was ever issued, within a week of its appearance. It was done with -graduated wedges, sir, the first so small that you could hardly see it -against the light, and the last strong enough to prize it open. It was a -clever managed affair.”</p> - -<p>“I remember it,” said I. “But surely some one was convicted for -that?”</p> - -<p>“Yes, one was nabbed. But he didn’t split, nor even let on how it was -done. We’d have cut his soul out if—” He suddenly damped down the very -ugly fires which were peeping from his eyes. “Perhaps I am boring you, -talking about these old wicked days of mine?”</p> - -<p>“On the contrary,” I said, “you interest me extremely.”</p> - -<p>“I like to get a listener I can trust. It’s a sort of blow-off, you -know, and I feel lighter after it. When I am among my brethren I dare -hardly think of what has gone before. Now I’ll tell you about another -job I was in. To this day, I cannot think about it without -laughing.”</p> - -<p>I lit another cigar, and composed myself to listen.</p> - -<p>“It was when I was a youngster,” said he. “There was a big City man -in those days who was known to have a very valuable gold watch. I -followed him about for several days before I could get a chance; but -when I did get one, you may be sure I did not throw it away. He found, -to, his disgust, when he got home that day, that there was nothing in -his fob. I hurried off with my prize, and got it stowed away in safety, -intending to have it melted down next day. Now, it happened that this -watch possessed a special value in the owner’s eyes because it was a -sort of ancestral possession—presented by his father on coming of age, -or something of that sort. I remember there was a long inscription on -the back. He was determined not to lose it if he could help it, and -accordingly he put an advertisement in an evening paper, offering thirty -pounds reward for its return, and promising that no questions should be -asked. He gave the address of his house, 31 Caroline Square, at the end -of the advertisement. The thing sounded good enough, so I set off for -Caroline Square, leaving the watch in a parcel at a public house which I -passed on the way. When I got there, the gentleman was at dinner; but he -came out quick enough when he heard that a young man wanted to see him. -I suppose he guessed who the young man would prove to be. He was a -genial-looking old fellow, and he led me away with him into his -study.</p> - -<p>“‘Well, my lad,’ said he, ‘what is it?’</p> - -<p>“‘I’ve come about that watch of yours,’ said I. ‘I think I can lay my -hands on it.’</p> - -<p>“‘Oh, it was you that took it!’ said he.</p> - -<p>“‘No,’ I answered; ‘I know nothing whatever about how you lost it. I -have been sent by another party to see you about it. Even if you have me -arrested you will not find out anything.’</p> - -<p>“‘Well,’ he said, ‘I don’t want to be hard on you. Hand it over, and -here is my check for the amount.’</p> - -<p>“‘Checks won’t do,’ said I; ‘I must have it in gold.’</p> - -<p>“‘It would take an hour or so to collect in gold,’ said he.</p> - -<p>“‘That will just suit,’ I answered, ‘for I have not got the watch -with me. I’ll go back and fetch it, while you raise the money.’</p> - -<p>“I started off and got the watch where I had left it. When I came -back, the old gentleman was sitting behind his study table, with the -little heap of gold in front of him.</p> - -<p>“‘Here is your money,’ he said, and pushed it over.</p> - -<p>“‘Here is your watch,’ said I.</p> - -<p>“He was evidently delighted to get it back; and after examining it -carefully, and assuring himself that it was none the worse, he put it -into the watch-pocket of his coat with a grunt of satisfaction.</p> - -<p>“‘Now, my lad,’ he said, ‘I know it was you that took the watch. Tell -me how you did it, and I don’t mind giving you an extra five-pound -note.’</p> - -<p>“‘I wouldn’t tell you in any case,’ said I; ‘but especially I -wouldn’t tell you when you have a witness hid behind that curtain.’ You -see, I had all my wits about me, and it didn’t escape me that the -curtain was drawn tighter than it had been before.</p> - -<p>“‘You are too sharp for us,’ said he, good-humoredly. ‘Well, you have -got your money, and that’s an end of it. I’ll take precious good care -you don’t get hold of my watch again in a hurry. Good night—no; not that -door,’ he added as I marched towards a cupboard. ‘This is the door,’ and -he stood up and opened it. I brushed past him, opened the hall door, and -was round the corner of the square in no time. I don’t know how long the -old gentleman took to find it out, but in passing him at the door, I -managed to pick his pocket for the second time, and next morning the -family heirloom was in the melting-pot, after all. That wasn’t bad, was -it?’”</p> - -<p>The old war-horse had evidently forgotten all about his conversion -now. There was a tone of triumph in the conclusion of his anecdote which -showed that his pride in his smartness far surpassed his repentance of -his misdeeds. He seemed pleased at the astonishment and amusement I -expressed at his adroitness.</p> - -<p>“Yes,” he continued with a laugh, “it was a capital joke. But -sometimes the fun lies all the other way. Even the sharpest of us come -to grief at times. There was one rather curious incident which occurred -in my career. You may possibly have seen the anecdote, for it got into -print at the time.”</p> - -<p>“Pray let me hear it,” said I.</p> - -<p>“Well, it is hard lines telling stories against one’s self, but this -was how it happened: I had made a rather good haul, and invested some of -the swag in buying a very fine diamond ring. I thought it would be -something to fall back upon when all the ready was gone and times were -hard. I had just purchased it, and was going back to my lodgings in the -omnibus, when, as luck would have it, a very stylishly-dressed young -lady came in and took her seat beside me. I didn’t pay much attention to -her at first; but after a time something hard in her dress knocked up -against my hand, which my experienced touch soon made out to be a purse. -It struck me that I could not pass the time more profitably or agreeably -than by making this purse my own. I had to do it very carefully; but I -managed at last to wriggle my hand into her rather light pocket, and I -thought the job was over. Just at this moment she rose abruptly to leave -the ’bus, and I had hardly time to get my hand with the purse in it out -of her pocket without detection. It was not until she had been gone some -time that I found out that in drawing out my hand in that hurried manner -the new and ill-fitting ring had slipped over my finger and remained in -the young lady’s pocket. I sprang out and ran in the direction in which -she had gone with the intention of picking her pocket once again. She -had disappeared, however; and from that day till this I have never set -eyes on her. To make the matter worse, there was only four pence -half-penny in coppers inside the purse. Sarve me right for trying to rob -such a pretty girl; still, if I had that two hundred quid now I should -not be reduced to—Good heavens, forgive me! What am I saying?”</p> - -<p>He seemed inclined to relapse into silence after this; but I was -determined to draw him out a little more, if I could possibly manage it. -“There is less personal risk in the branch you have been talking of,” I -remarked, “than there is in burglary.”</p> - -<p>“Ah!” he said, warming to his subject once again, “it is the higher -game which is best worth aiming at. Talk about sport, sir, talk about -fishing or hunting! Why, it is tame in comparison! Think of the great -country house with its men-servants and its dogs and its firearms, and -you with only your jimmy and your centre bit, and your mother wit, which -is best of all. It is the triumph of intellect over brute force, sir, as -represented by bolts and bars.”</p> - -<p>“People generally look upon it as quite the reverse,” I remarked.</p> - -<p>“I was never one of those blundering life-preserver fellows,” said -my companion. “I did try my hand at garroting once; but it was against -my principles, and I gave it up. I have tried everything. I have been a -bedridden widow with three young children; but I do object to physical -force.”</p> - -<p>“You have been what?” said I.</p> - -<p>“A bedridden widow. Advertising, you know, and getting subscriptions. -I have tried them all. You seem interested in these experiences,” he -continued, “so I will tell you another anecdote. It was the narrowest -escape from penal servitude that ever I had in my life. A pal and I had -gone down on a country beat—it doesn’t signify where it was—and taken up -our headquarters in a little provincial town. Somehow it got noised -abroad that we were there, and householders were warned to be careful, -as suspicious characters had been seen in the neighborhood. We should -have changed our plans when we saw the game was up; but my chum was a -plucky fellow, and wouldn’t consent to back down. Poor little Jim! He -was only thirty-four round the chest, and about twelve at the biceps; -but there is not a measuring-tape in England could have given the size -of his heart. He said we were in for it, and we must stick to it; so I -agreed to stay, and we chose Morley Hall, the country house of a certain -Colonel Morley, to begin with.</p> - -<p>“Now this Colonel Morley was about the last man in the world that we -should have meddled with. He was a shrewd, cool-headed fellow, who had -knocked about and seen the world, and it seems that he took a special -pride in the detection of criminals. However, we knew nothing of all -this at that time; so we set forth hopefully to have a try at the -house.</p> - -<p>“The reason that made us pick him out among the rest was that he had -a good-for-nothing groom, who was a tool in our hands. This fellow had -drawn up a rough plan of the premises for us. The place was pretty well -locked up and guarded, and the only weak point we could see was a -certain trap-door, the padlock of which was broken, and which opened -from the roof into one of the lumber-rooms. If we could only find any -method of reaching the roof, we might force a way securely from above. -We both thought the plan rather a good one and it had a spice of -originality about it which pleased us. It is not the mere jewels or -plate, you know, that a good cracksman thinks about. The neatness of the -job and his reputation for smartness are almost as important in his -eyes.</p> - -<p>“We had been very quiet for a day or two, just to let suspicion die -away. Then we set out one dark night, Jim and I, and got over the avenue -railings and up to the house without meeting a soul. It was blowing -hard, I remember, and the clouds were hurrying across the sky. We had a -good look at the front of the house; and then Jim went round to the -garden side. He came running back in a minute or two in a great state of -delight. ‘Why, Bill,’ he said, gripping me by the arm, ‘there never was -such a bit of luck! They’ve been repairing the roof or something, and -they’ve left the ladder standing.’ We went round together, and there, -sure enough, was the ladder towering above our heads, and one or two -laborers’ hods lying about, which showed that some work had been going -on during the day. We had a good look round, to see that everything was -quiet, and then we climbed up, Jim first and I after him. We got to the -top, and were sitting on the slates, having a bit of a breather before -beginning business, when you can fancy our feelings to see the ladder -that we came up by suddenly stand straight up in the air, and then -slowly descend until it rested in the garden below. At first we hoped it -might have slipped, though that was bad enough; but we soon had that -idea put out of our heads.</p> - -<p>“‘Hullo, up there!’ cried a voice from below.</p> - -<p>“We craned our heads over the edge, and there was a man, dressed, as -far as we could make out, in evening dress, and standing in the middle -of the grass plot. We kept quiet.</p> - -<p>“‘Hullo!’ he shouted again. ‘How do you feel yourself? Pretty -comfortable, eh? Ha! ha! You London rogues thought we were green in the -country. What’s your opinion now?’</p> - -<p>“We both lay still, though feeling pretty considerably small, as you -may imagine.</p> - -<p>“‘It’s all right; I see you.’ he continued.</p> - -<p>“‘Why, I have been waiting behind that lilac bush every night for the -last week, expecting to see you. I knew you couldn’t resist going up -that ladder, when you found the windows were too much for you.—Joe! -Joe!’</p> - -<p>“‘Yes, sir,’ said a voice, and another man came from among the -bushes.</p> - -<p>“‘Just you keep your eye on the roof, will you, while I ride down to -the station and fetch up a couple of constables?—<i>Au revoir</i>, gentlemen! -You don’t mind waiting, I suppose?’ And Colonel Morley—for it was the -owner of the house himself—strode off; and in a few minutes we heard the -rattle of his horse’s hoofs going down the avenue.</p> - -<p>“Well, sir, we felt precious silly, as you may imagine. It wasn’t so -much having been nabbed that bothered us, as the feeling of being caught -in such a simple trap. We looked at each other in blank disgust, and -then, to save our lives, we couldn’t help bursting into laughter at our -own fix. However, it was no laughing matter; so we set to work going -around the roof, and seeing if there was a likely water-pipe or anything -that might give us a chance of escape. We had to give it up as a bad -job; so we sat down again, and made up our minds to the worst. Suddenly -an idea flashed into my head, and I groped my way over the roof until I -felt wood under my feet. I bent down and found that the colonel had -actually forgotten to secure the padlock! You will often notice, as you -go through life, that it is the shrewdest and most cunning man who falls -into the most absurd mistakes; and this was an example of it. You may -guess that we did not lose much time, for we expected to hear the -constables every moment. We dropped through into the lumber-room, -slipped downstairs, tore open the library shutters, and were out and -away before the astonished groom could make out what had happened. There -wasn’t time enough to take any little souvenir with us, worse luck. I -should have liked to have seen the colonel’s face when he came back with -the constables and found that the birds were flown.”</p> - -<p>“Did you ever come across the colonel again?” I asked.</p> - -<p>“Yes; we skinned him of every bit of plate he had, down to the -salt-spoons, a few years later. It was partly out of revenge, you see, -that we did it. It was a very well-managed and daring thing, one of the -best I ever saw, and all done in open daylight, too.”</p> - -<p>“How in the world did you do it?” I asked.</p> - -<p>“Well, there were three of us in it—Jim was one—and we set about it -in this way: We wanted to begin by getting the colonel out of the way, -so I wrote him a note purporting to come from Squire Brotherwick, who -lived about ten miles away, and was not always on the best of terms with -the master of Morley Hall. I dressed myself up as a groom, and delivered -the note myself. It was to the effect that the squire thought he was -able to lay his hands on the scoundrels who had escaped from the colonel -a couple of years before, and that if the colonel would ride over they -would have little difficulty in securing them. I was sure that this -would have the desired effect; so, after handing it in, and remarking -that I was the squire’s groom, I walked off again, as if on the way back -to my master’s.</p> - -<p>“After getting out of sight of the house, I crouched down behind a -hedge; and, as I expected, in less than a quarter of an hour the colonel -came swinging past me on his chestnut mare. Now, there is another -accomplishment I possess which I have not mentioned to you yet, and that -is, that I can copy any handwriting that I see. It is a very easy trick -to pick up if you only give your mind to it. I happened to have come -across one of Colonel Morley’s letters some days before, and I can write -so that even now I defy an expert to detect a difference between the -hands. This was a great assistance to me now, for I tore a leaf out of -my pocketbook and wrote something to this effect:</p> - -<div style='font-size:0.9em;margin-top:0.8em; margin-bottom:0.8em;'> -“‘As Squire Brotherwick has seen some suspicious characters about, -and the house may be attempted again, I have sent down to the bank, and -ordered them to send up their bank-cart to convey the whole of the plate -to a place of safety. It will save us a good deal of anxiety to know -that it is in absolute security. Have it packed up and ready, and give -the bearer a glass of beer.’ -</div> - -<p>“Having composed this precious epistle, I addressed it to the butler, -and carried it back to the Hall, saying that their master had overtaken -me on the way and asked me to deliver it. I was taken in and made much -of downstairs, while a great packing case was dragged into the hall, -and the plate stowed away, among cotton-wool and stuffing. It was nearly -ready, when I heard the sound of wheels upon the gravel, and sauntered -round just in time to see a business-like closed car drive up to the -door. One of my pals was sitting very demurely on the box, while Jim, -with an official looking hat, sprang out and bustled into the hall.</p> - -<p>“‘Now then,’ I heard him say, ‘look sharp! What’s for the bank? Come -on!’</p> - -<p>“‘Wait a minute, sir,’ said the butler.</p> - -<p>“‘Can’t wait. There’s a panic all over the country, and they are -clamoring for us everywhere. Must drive on to Lord Blackbury’s place, -unless you are ready.’</p> - -<p>“‘Don’t go, sir!’ pleaded the butler. ‘There’s only this one rope to -tie. There, it is ready now. You’ll look after it, won’t you?’</p> - -<p>“‘That we will. You’ll never have any more trouble with it now,’ said -Jim, helping to push the great case into the car.</p> - -<p>“‘I think I had better go with you and see it stowed away in the -bank,’ said the butler.</p> - -<p>“‘All right,’ said Jim, nothing abashed. ‘You can’t come in the car, -though, for Lord Blackbury’s box will take up all the spare room. Let’s -see; it’s twelve o’clock now. Well, you be waiting at the bank door at -half-past one, and you will just catch us.’</p> - -<p>“‘All right; half-past one,’ said the butler.</p> - -<p>“‘Good-day,’ cried my chum; and away went the car, while I made a bit -of a short cut and caught it around a turn of the road. We drove right -off into the next county, got a down-train to London, and before -midnight the colonel’s silver was fused into a solid lump.”</p> - -<p>I could not help laughing at the versatility of the old scoundrel. -“It was a daring game to play,” I said.</p> - -<p>“It is always the daring game which succeeds best,” he answered.</p> - -<p>At this point the train began to show symptoms of slowing down, and -my companion put on his overcoat and gave other signs of being near the -end of his journey.</p> - -<p>“You are going on to Dover?” he said.</p> - -<p>“Yes.”</p> - -<p>“For the Continent?”</p> - -<p>“Yes.”</p> - -<p>“How long do you intend to travel?”</p> - -<p>“Only for a week or so.”</p> - -<p>“Well, I must leave you here. You will remember my name, won’t you? -John Wilkie. I am pleased to have met you. Is my umbrella behind you?” -he added, stretching across. “No; I beg your pardon. Here it is in the -corner;” and with an affable smile, the ex-cracksman stepped out, bowed, -and disappeared among the crowd upon the platform.</p> - -<p>I lit another cigar, laughed as I thought of my late companion, and -lifted up the “Times,” which he had left behind him. The bell had rung, -the wheels were already revolving, when, to my astonishment, a pallid -face looked in at me through the window. It was so contorted and -agitated that I hardly recognized the features which I had been gazing -upon during the last couple of hours. “Here, take it,” he said, “take -it. It’s hardly worth my while to rob you of seven pounds four -shillings, but I couldn’t resist once more trying my hand;” and he flung -something into the carriage and disappeared.</p> - -<p>It was my old leather purse, with my return ticket, and the whole of -my travelling expenses. 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