"An Old Flame" is a short story by E. W. Hornung, and features the gentleman thief A. J. Raffles, and his companion and biographer, Bunny Manders.

Bunny waits around the corner, unseen, until Raffles returns and urges them home.

Bunny stays at a hotel until he find a cottage for rent in Ham Common for him and Raffles.

After a full ten days have passed without any sign from Raffles, Bunny impatiently returns to Earl's Court, where he finds Dr. Theobald, lamenting the death of Mr. Maturin, from typhoid.

Here was a new excitement in which to drown my grief; here was something to think about; and I should be spared the intolerable experience of a solitary return to the little place at Ham.

There, a Scotland Yard official quietly arrests Bunny, and takes him away in a hansom.