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Arriving home after midnight, and there being no lights showing anywhere, Larose let himself very quietly into the house, and after some successful foraging in the larder, put himself to bed in one of the spare bedrooms and was asleep in less than five minutes.
The next morning he surprised his wife by appearing in her room before six o'clock, and Sir Eric and Lady Roding by announcing at breakfast that he had succeeded in running down the violater of the Roding vaults and had obtained a confession from him, which had been posted direct to Roding Hall.