His eyes were shining with the prospect as I drove away, not sorry to escape the scene of that young man's awakening to better fortune than he deserved. For in my heart I could not quite forgive the act in which Raffles and I had caught him overnight. Raffles might make as light of it as he pleased; it was impossible for another to take his affectionately lenient view, not of the moral question involved, but of the breach of faith between friend and friend. My own feeling in the matter, however, if a little jaundiced, was not so strong as to prevent me from gloating over the victory in which I had just assisted. I thought of the notorious extortioner who had fallen to our unscrupulous but not indictable wiles; and my heart tinkled with the hansom bell. I thought of the good that we had done for once, of the undoubted wrong we had contrived to right by a species of justifiable chicanery. And I forgot all about the youth whose battle we had fought and won, until I found myself ordering his breakfast, and having his cricket-bag taken out to my cab. Raffles was waiting for me in the Albany courtyard. I thought he was frowning at the sky, which was not what it had been earlier in the morning, until I remembered how little time there was to lose. "Haven't you seen anything of him?" he cried as I jumped out. "Of whom, Raffles?" "Teddy, of course!" "Teddy Garland? Has he gone out?" "Before I got in," said Raffles, grimly. "I wonder where the devil he is!" He had paid the cabman and taken down the bag himself. I followed him up to his rooms. "But what's the meaning of it, Raffles?" "That's what I want to know." "Could he have gone out for a paper?" "They were all here before I went. I left them on his bed." "Or for a shave?" "That's more likely; but he's been out nearly an hour." "But you can't have been gone much longer yourself, Raffles, and I understood you left him fast asleep?" "That's the worst of it, Bunny. He must have been shamming. Barraclough saw him go out ten minutes after me." "Could you have disturbed him when you went?" Raffles shook his head. "I never shut a door more carefully in my life. I made row enough when I came back, Bunny, on purpose to wake him up, and I can tell you it gave me a turn when there wasn't a sound from in there! He'd shut all the doors after him; it was a second or two before I had the pluck to open them. I thought something horrible had happened!" "You don't think so still?" "I don't know what to think," said Raffles, gloomily; "nothing has panned out as I thought it would. You must remember that we have given ourselves away to Dan Levy, whatever else we have done, and without doubt set up the enemy of our lives in the very next street. It's close quarters, Bunny; we shall have an expert eye upon us for some time to come. But I should rather enjoy that than otherwise, if only Teddy hadn't bolted in this rotten way."