"The Knees of the Gods" is a short story by E. W. Hornung, and features the gentleman thief A. J. Raffles, and his companion and biographer, Bunny Manders.

Raffles and Bunny lose interest in crime when the Second Boer War breaks out.

Eventually, Raffles decides to dye his hair ginger and enlist as a volunteer at the front.

Connal, a fellow soldier and a brute, hassles Bunny, but is tamed by a fight with Raffles.

His suspicions are confirmed when Connal tries and fails to leads their troupe straight into enemy territory, as if by accident.

Raffles and Bunny are stealing liquor from a house in a captured town when Captain Bellingham, a former-cricketer-turned-officer, stops them.

Connal, infuriated, tries to blackmail them using their true identities that he learned by spying on Bellingham's tent.

At last, while his eyes are closed, Bunny hears Raffles speak his final words.