If I must tell more tales of Raffles, I can but back to our earliest days together, and fill in the blanks left by discretion in existing annals. In so doing I may indeed fill some small part of an infinitely greater blank, across which you may conceive me to have stretched my canvas for the first frank portrait of my friend. The whole truth cannot harm him now. I shall paint in every wart. Raffles was a villain, when all is written; it is no service to his memory to glaze the fact; yet I have done so myself before to-day. I have omitted whole heinous episodes. I have dwelt unduly on the redeeming side. And this I may do again, blinded even as I write by the gallant glamour that made my villain more to me than any hero. But at least there shall be no more reservations, and as an earnest I shall make no further secret of the greatest wrong that even Raffles ever did me.
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Lord Thornaby, Scotland Yard, Palace Gardens, Barney Maguire, Nipper Nasmyth, Old Boys, Rest Cure, Raffles Relics, Black Museum, Lord Lochmaben, Swigger Morrison, Empress Rooms, Half-moon Street, Campden Hill, Colonel Crutchley, Earl of Thornaby, Founder's Fund, Ham Common, High Street, Imperial Boxing Club, Sloane Street, State of Nevada, Thornaby House New!
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If I must tell more tales of Raffles, I can but back to our earliest days together, and fill in the blanks left by discretion in existing annals. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lord Thornaby, Scotland Yard, Palace Gardens, Barney Maguire, Nipper Nasmyth, Old Boys, Rest Cure, Raffles Relics, Black Museum, Lord Lochmaben, Swigger Morrison, Empress Rooms, Half-moon Street, Campden Hill, Colonel Crutchley, Earl of Thornaby, Founder's Fund, Ham Common, High Street, Imperial Boxing Club, Sloane Street, State of Nevada, Thornaby House New!
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- A Thief in the Night by E. W. Hornung in Front Matter
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