Excerpt from A Thief in the Night: Further Adventures of A. J. Raffles, Cricketer and Cracksman I pick my words with care and pain, loyal as I still would be to my friend, and yet remem bering as I must those Ides of March when he led me blindfold into temptation and crime. That was an ugly ofice, if you will. It was a moral bagatelle tb the treacherous trick he was to play me a few weeks later. The second olience, on the other hand, was to prove the less serious of the two against society, and might in itsel'f have been published to the world years ago. There have been private reasons for my reticence. The affair was not only too inti mately mine, and too discreditable to Raffles. One other was involved in it, one dearer to me than Rallies himself, one whose name shall not even now be sullied by association with ours. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.