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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.
He had taken screws out and put them in again; he had unfastened von Heumann's ventilator and had left it fast as he had found it fast as he instantly proceeded to make his own.
The ventilator opposite ours is von Heumann's. It again will only mean a couple of screws, and there's a beam to stand on while you work." "But if anybody should look up from below?" "It's extremely unlikely that anybody will be astir below, so unlikely that we can afford to chance it. No, I can't have you there to make sure.
"Dat is enough," cried the captain. "Have you submid to be searge, or do I vorce you?" "What you will," said Raffles, "but it will do you no harm to give us fair play first. You accuse us of breaking into Captain von Heumann's state-room during the small hours of this morning, and abstracting from it this confounded pearl.
But I don't anticipate any violence. Violence is a confession of terrible incompetence. In all these years how many blows have you known me to strike? Not one, I believe; but I have been quite ready to kill my man every time, if the worst came to the worst." I asked him how he proposed to enter von Heumann's state-room unobserved, and even through the curtained gloom of ours his face lighted up.
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