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The bargain was clinched at the Cafe Royal, where Bennett Addenbrooke insisted on playing host at an extravagant luncheon.
Bennett Addenbrooke occupied substantial offices in Wellington Street, Strand, and was out when we arrived; but he had only just gone "over the way to the court"; and five minutes sufficed to produce a brisk, fresh-colored, resolute-looking man, with a very confident, rather festive air, and black eyes that opened wide at the sight of Raffles. "Mr. Glasspool?" exclaimed the lawyer.
"You are in earnest?" "God wot!" "Say three thousand if you succeed!" "Four is our figure, Mr. Addenbrooke." "Then I think it should be nothing if you fail." "Doubles or quits?" cried Raffles. "Well, that's sporting. Done!" Addenbrooke opened his lips, half rose, then sat back in his chair, and looked long and shrewdly at Raffles never once at me. "I know your bowling," said he reflectively.
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