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It had often been insisted by the admirer's of Larose that the great detective was never seen to better advantage than when his fortunes were apparently at their lowest ebb.
Confronted with a failure that it seemed absolutely impossible to avoid, and seemingly overwhelmed by difficulties from which there was no escape, he would complacently turn off from his original course, only to reappear in a few days or weeks with victory well in sight.