The butler looked very frightened. “Oh, but, sir, it'll be very risky. Suppose the master comes home early!”
“Then I'll get out of his bedroom window,” replied Larose. “I shall hear him come in. No, no, you can go off to bed directly you've let me into the house. I shan't want any more help from you at all.”
But Dempster was most unwilling, and it was only after Larose had spoken very sternly and reminded him of his oath to the Intelligence Department that he reluctantly agreed. It was arranged then that Larose should come in through the kitchen window.
They parted a few minutes later and Larose turned on to the main road. As he drove along he tried to sum up all he had learnt from the butler, but somehow he did not seem to be able to think coherently, and in a few minutes, to his disma
