 After publishing two novels , Dead Men Don 't Tell Tales in 1899 and Peccavi in 1900 , Hornung published a second collection of Raffles stories , The Black Mask , in 1901 . The nearly broke Manders is told to apply for the post of a nurse to an elderly invalid , who then reveals himself to be Raffles , who , as Manders describes , had " aged twenty years ; he looked fifty at the very least . His hair was white ; there was no trick about that ; and his face was another white . The lines about the corners of the eyes and mouth were both many and deep " . In the final story of the collection , " The Knees of the Gods " , Raffles and Manders enlist in the army to fight in the Second Boer War ; the story closes with Manders wounded and Raffles killed . The critics again complained about the criminal aspect ; The Spectator declared " this sort of book presents crime in a form too entertaining and attractive to be moral " , while the reviewer for The Illustrated London News thought that Hornung 's " invention has obviously flagged ... It is laughable , in a sense which the author never intended , to hear these burglars rant about the honour of Old England . It is a pity that the man who wrote Peccavi should stoop to this " . 
 After publishing two novels , Dead Men Don 't Tell Tales in 1899 and Peccavi in 1900 , Hornung published a second collection of Raffles stories , The Black Mask , in 1901 . The nearly broke Manders is told to apply for the post of a nurse to an elderly invalid , <a href='null_relcl' title='1'><mark>who</mark></a>then <a href='uninflect' title='2'><mark>reveals</mark></a> himself to be Raffles , <a href='null_relcl' title='3'><mark>who</mark></a>, as Manders <a href='uninflect' title='4'><mark>describes</mark></a> , had " aged twenty years ; he looked fifty at the very least . His hair was white ; <a href='dey_it' title='5'><mark>there</mark></a> was no trick about that ; and his face was another white . The lines about the corners of the eyes and mouth <a href='uninflect' title='6'><mark>were</mark></a> both many and deep " . In the final story of the collection , " The Knees of the Gods " , Raffles and Manders enlist in the army to fight in the Second Boer War ; the story <a href='uninflect' title='7'><mark>closes</mark></a> with Manders wounded and Raffles killed . The critics again complained about the criminal aspect ; The Spectator declared " this sort of book <a href='uninflect' title='8'><mark>presents</mark></a> crime in a form too entertaining and attractive to be moral " , while the reviewer for The Illustrated London News thought that Hornung <a href='null_genetive' title='9'><mark>'s</mark></a>" invention <a href='been_done' title='10'><mark>has</mark></a> obviously flagged ... It <a href='drop_aux' title='11'><mark>is</mark></a>laughable , in a sense which the author never intended , to hear these burglars rant about the honour of Old England . It <a href='drop_aux' title='12'><mark>is</mark></a>a pity that the man <a href='null_relcl' title='13'><mark>who</mark></a>wrote Peccavi should stoop to this " . 
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