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The following morning Larose, leaving his car in the garage of the inn, went for a three hours' tramp, circling round Thralldom Castle in every direction, but never going much farther than a mile away from it. Once, he approached to within a few hundred yards, and only desisted from a very close inspection, because of the many warning notices he saw displayed everywhere, that trespassers would be prosecuted.
"A most exclusive old gentleman," was his comment upon the lord of the castle, "and perhaps it is a good thing that his line is dying out. Surely a castle like this should belong to the nation and not to any particular individual."