I paused aghast.

"Scotch he is," said Raffles, "and photographer he may be. He is also

Inspector Mackenzie of Scotland Yard--the very man I sent the message

to that night last April. And you couldn't spot who he was in a whole

hour! O Bunny, Bunny, you were never built for crime!"

"But," said I, "if that was Mackenzie, who was the fellow you bolted

from at Warbeck?"

"The man he's watching."

"But he's watching us!"

Raffles looked at me with a pitying eye, and shook his head again

before handing me his open cigarette-case.

"I don't know whether smoking's forbidden in one's bedroom, but you'd

better take one of these and stand tight, Bunny, because I'm going to

say something offensive."

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