IX—"The Chamber of Death"WHEN Larose, as had been arranged, rang up the Embassy that night, he was told to come round as soon as he could, and he arrived half an hour later. Then, being admitted as before by the servants' entrance in the basement, he was passed on to another attendant who, without a word, led him along a long passage and down a flight of stairs into a dimly-lighted passage at the bottom.
Then, so suddenly that he had not the slightest warning, someone sprang upon him out of the darkness; he felt gripping hands all over him and he was thrown violently down and pressed tightly to the ground.
A light was switched on and he found himself in the grip of three burly men. A fourth produced a rope and he was quickly tied hand and foot.
Then he was lifted up and carried a short
