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Updated: June 12, 2025
But soon you confided to me the fact that your wife, being spiteful towards you, had abandoned your heir, little Oswald, in Westbourne Grove, and had then rung up from a call-office telling you to find him." "Bosh! My dear fellow! Bosh!" was his reply. "First, you were never there; and secondly, I've never complained of my wife's behaviour to anyone; certainly not to a stranger." "You did to me.
There, to be sure, I myself had spotted one of the precious pair when I drove up after vain exertions at the call-office outside Lord's; but by that time his confederate was on guard at the Piccadilly end, and Raffles had not only shown a clean pair of wings, but left the poor brutes to watch an empty cage. He dismisses them not unfairly with the epithet "amateurish."
We had continued our stroll some time ago, and now it was I who stood still. I looked at my watch. It still wanted some minutes to the luncheon interval. "If Raffles took a cab to his rooms," I said, "he must be nearly there and I must telephone to him." "Is there a call-office on the ground?" "Only in the pavilion, I believe, for the use of the members."
Then she rang me up from some call-office and told me what she had done. Put yourself in my place," he said. "Would you not be indignant? Would you not be filled with hatred and " "I certainly should," was my reply. "I'm a bachelor, and sometimes when I see so many unhappy marriages I fear to take the matrimonial plunge myself." "Ah!
"You appear to forget that night when your wife deserted your son in Westbourne Grove, and then laughed at you over the telephone from a public call-office." He looked at me very straight with those deep-set eyes of his. "Really," he exclaimed. "That is quite a new feature in the affair. Let me see, what did I tell you?"
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