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`` God knows ! '' he answered . And with that he left me , to marvel at his look and tone , and , more than ever , at the insufficiently exciting cause . Of all the mere feats of cracksmanship which I have seen Raffles perform , at once the most delicate and most difficult was that which he accomplished between one and two o'clock on the Tuesday morning , aboard the North German steamer Uhlan , lying at anchor in Genoa harbor . Not a hitch occurred . Everything had been foreseen ; everything happened as I had been assured everything must . Nobody was about below , only the ship 's boys on deck , and nobody on the bridge .