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Updated: May 26, 2025
I might have known by this time that he had not, still I went through the pantomime of writing with my finger on my cuff. But he shrugged and shook his head. "Niente," said he. "Una quistione di vita, di vita!" "What's that?" I snapped, my early training come in again. "Say it slowly andante rallentando." Thank Italy for the stage instructions in the songs one used to murder!
"Ten bob if you do it," I cried through the trap, without the slightest notion of what we were to do. But it was "una quistione di vita," and "vostro amico" must and could only be my miserable Raffles. What a very godsend is the perfect hansom to the man or woman in a hurry!
The fellow actually understood. "Una quistione di vita." "Or mors, eh?" I shouted, and up went the trap-door over our heads. "Avanti, avanti, avanti!" cried the Italian, turning up his one-eyed face. "Hell-to-leather," I translated, "and double fare if you do it by twelve o'clock." But in the streets of London how is one to know the time?
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