O'Hara managed to get hold of a copy of the paper, and showed it to
Clowes and Trevor.
"So now," he said, "it's all right, ye see. They'll never suspect it
wasn't the same people that tarred the statue both times. An' ye've got
the bat back, so it's all right, ye see."
"The only thing that'll trouble you now," said Clowes, "will be your
conscience."
O'Hara intimated that he would try and put up with that.
"But isn't it a stroke of luck," he said, "that they should have gone
and tarred Sir Eustace again so soon after Moriarty and I did it?"
Clowes said gravely that it only showed the force of good example.
"Yes. They wouldn't have thought of it, if it hadn't been for us,"
chortled O'Hara. "I wonder, now, if there's anything else we could do
to that statue!" he added, meditatively.
"My good lunatic," said Clowes, "don't you think you've done almost
enough for one term?"
"Well, 'myes," replied O'Hara thoughtfully, "perhaps we have, I
suppose."
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