“You never saw it.”
“But you never looked round.”
“I have an eye at the back of each ear, Bunny.”
I helped myself and I fear with less moderation than might have been the case a minute before.
“So that was why—”
“That was why,” said Raffles, nodding; but he did not smile, and I put down my glass untouched.
“They were following us then!”
“All up Palace Gardens.”
“I thought you wound about coming back over the hill.”
“Nevertheless, one of them’s in the street below at this moment.”