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From the swell mob, we diverge to the kindred topics of cracksmen, fences, public- house dancers, area-sneaks, designing young people who go out 'gonophing, and other 'schools. It is observable throughout these revelations, that Inspector Stalker, the Scotchman, is always exact and statistical, and that when any question of figures arises, everybody as by one consent pauses, and looks to him.
"Here in your rooms, Mr. A.J. Raffles." "Well, Bunny," said Raffles, "I suppose we must both plead guilty to a hair of the jolly dog that bit him eh?" "You know what I mean," our visitor ground out through his teeth. "You're cracksmen, magsmen, mobsmen, the two of you; so you may as well both own up to it." "Cracksmen? Magsmen? Mobsmen?" repeated Raffles, with his head on one side.
Take the advice of a sincere friend, and keep off. Be warned in time, villains! Or, if you MUST pursue your calling as cracksmen, have the goodness to try some other shutters. Enough! subside into your darkness, children of night! Thieves! we seek not to have YOU hanged you are but as pegs whereon to hang others.
Are you the pal of these cracksmen, or have you been on a lay on your own hook?" Rodney did not know what he meant, and he said so. "I mean," said the man, in the same low, thieves' jargon, "have you been helping these fellows crack a crib?" "Doing what?" said Rodney. "Breaking into a house, you dumb-head."
Cashier, consider what regular and desperate cracksmen would have done to you! Considering our carefulness where you were concerned, and the trouble we have been put to in getting out and chasing you, what say?" Again Vaniman got a strong grip on his emotions.
He was one of the most accomplished cracksmen in England, and feats which seemed impossible to me would probably be the merest child's play to him. Still it was no good worrying over what couldn't be helped. My first job was to get safely into the Walkham woods; after that it would be quite time enough to think about turning burglar. I sat up and looked out into the mist.
The safe in the study was certainly found open and empty, but, as Mr. Borlsover informed the police inspector, he had kept nothing of value in it during the last six months. "Then you're lucky in getting off so easily, sir," the man replied. "By the way they have gone about their business, I should say they were experienced cracksmen.
And not even Ellen Roach herself would have dared to assert that Rann was Barrington's equal in sleight of hand. But Rann holds his own against the best of his craft, with an imperishable name, while a host of more distinguished cracksmen are excluded even from the Newgate Calendar.
"Then you mean to break in?" "What else did you think?" I had not thought about it at all; the ultimate crime had monopolized my mind. Beside it burglary was a bagatelle, but one to deprecate none the less. I saw obvious objections: the man was au fait with cracksmen and their ways: he would certainly have firearms, and might be the first to use them. "I could wish nothing better," said Raffles.
Every trick is easy when you work it backwards. But just think, Simmonds," he added, "what problems the police will have to face, if gloves like these become fashionable among cracksmen!" Simmonds groaned dismally. "You haven't told us yet how it's done," he said. I bit back a smile, for Simmonds's tone was that of pupil to master. "Well," said Godfrey, slowly, "it might be done in several ways.
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