It ain't polite."
"It is gammon--running away with ideas like them, just as if you was one
of the public. When they two opened that box at Carlisle, which they did
as certain as you sit there, they believed as the diamonds were there.
They were not there."
"I don't think as they was," said Bunfit.
"Very well; where were they! Just walk up to it, Mr. Bunfit, making your
ground good as you go. They two men cut the door, and took the box and
opened it, and when they'd opened it, they didn't get the swag. Where was
the swag?"
"Lord George," said Bunfit again.
"Very well, Lord George. Like enough. But it comes to this. Benjamin, and
they two men of his, had laid themselves out for the robbery. Now, Mr.
Bunfit, whether Lord George and Benjamin were together in that first
affair, or whether they weren't, I can't see my way just at present, and I
don't know as you can see yours--not saying but what you're as quick as
most men, Mr. Bunfit. If he was--and I rayther think that's about it--then
he and Benjamin must have had a few words, and he must have got the jewels
from the lady over night."
"Of course he did; and Smiler and Billy Cann knew as they weren't there.
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