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LAROSE WAS round at the castle within half an hour of Penelope's message that the coast was all clear and quickly engaged in a most earnest conversation with Lord Delamarne.
-"I have been thinking, my lord," he said, "that although we've finished with about the worst man at the Baltic Embassy you're still not out of danger, and the sword will continue to hang over you. Of course, the Embassy people will be profoundly mystified with the disappearance of those two men, but it's not likely to put them off coming after those jewels again. Rather, I should say, they'll be more certain than ever that they were right in their conjectures and that you've got them hidden here."