"I have something there that might amuse you." He was on intimate terms with the McIntyres now, and there were few days on which they did not see something of each other.
They gladly accompanied him, all three, for such invitations were usually the prelude of some agreeable surprise which he had in store for them.
"I have shown you a tiger," he remarked to Laura, as he led them into the dining-room.

"I will now show you something quite as dangerous, though not nearly so pretty." There was an arrangement of mirrors at one end of the room, with a large circular glass set at a sharp angle at the top.
"Look in there--in the upper glass," said Raffles Haw.
"Good gracious! what dreadful-looking men!" cried Laura.

"There are two of them, and I don't know which is the worse." "What on earth are they doing ?" asked Robert.

"They appear to be sitting on the ground in some sort of a cellar." "Most dangerous-looking characters," said the old man.

"I should strongly recommend you to send for a policeman." "I have done so.