nab

"Did you see that light in Nab's just now?" cried Raffles as he led.

I believe he knew who it was toward the end, but Nab was not the man to accuse you of what he couldn't prove."

"History's on its own tracks once more, and I'll bet you it's dear old Nab on ours!

Raffles, however, was in first-class training from first-class cricket, and he had no mercy on Nab or me.

But Raffles himself had abandoned the flight on hearing my downfall, and I was on hands and knees just in time to see the meeting between him and old Nab. And there stood Raffles in the silvery mist, laughing with his whole light heart, leaning back to get the full flavor of his mirth; and, nearer me, sturdy old Nab, dour and grim, with beads of dew on the hoary beard that had been lamp-black in our time.

"Your man!" echoed Nab. His bushy eyebrows had shot up: it was as much as I could do to keep my own in their place.

let the other fellow do so," said old Nab in a genial growl.