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Win or lose he 's doomed to be on the wrong side of the market just because of those very qualities that make him a lovable person -- kind to everybody but himself , and weak as dish-water . For Heaven 's sake , Raffles , if the poor devil _ has _ anything left do n't take it from him . '' `` Your sympathy for Rand does you credit , '' said Holmes . `` But I have just as much of that as you have , and that is why , at half-past five o'clock to - morrow afternoon , I 'm going to hold him up , in the public eye , and incontinently rob him of $ 25,000 . '' `` Twenty-five thousand dollars ? Billington Rand ? '' I gasped .