"It's a wonder to me they didn't make off with your things while you were waiting." "I would have taken good care of that," I said defiantly.

But the constable wasn't impressed.
"Much you would have done.

The bag going off round one dark corner; the chest round another.

Would you have run two ways at once?
And anyhow you'd have been tripped up and jumped upon before you had run three yards.

I tell you you've had a most extraordinary chance that there wasn't one of them regular boys about to-night, in the High Street, to twig your loaded cab go by.