SPOILERS!!!
The three children love wandering about the estate even though Carol warns them that they may put themselves at risk. They want to visit Ned, who is the gamekeeper, and when they are on their way there, they find a deer trapped in a snare. Roger uses his knife to set the deer free, and then a rough-looking man appears, telling him not to put their noses into other people's business. When the children tell Ned about the man, he says that his name is Ravel Briggs and he is a poacher. Later they take the snare back to Carol, and she tells them to be careful.
Chops has been removed from the case because now the Yard is investigating. That doesn't stop him from doing his own investigation. It is thanks to Carol that he gets a lead in some of the prison officers, who were colleagues of the murdered man.
Briggs is working with the robbers who want to make sure Roger doesn't identify them. What they need is for the children to be alone with the old servants. So he tells them that Carol is away one night for her ambulance shift. That night there is a raid from the Germans, and Carol is busy. Chops gets confirmation that some prison officers were off the night of the robbery and they are off again that night. The gang, composed of Terry Moss, Gus Saxon and Purde, sneak into the house just as German planes fly in the sky. Mrs Parker, Figgs and the children hear them, so they are ready to go to the cellar, but they remember that the light in the kitchen is on, so little Benjy volunteers to turn it off, followed by Figgs, and he realises that there are some men trying to break into the house. Benjy becomes the hero of the night. Two of the men go after him while Purdy goes to the cellar, where Mrs Parker, Susan and Roger are. Benjy sets the snare that they had found in the forest, and Saxon falls into it, and Benjy then pushes him down the stairs. Then he uses his catapult to hit Moss with a stone, leaving him unconscious. In the cellar Purdy, the third man of the gang, has broken the door, and Roger tries to knock him down by using some wine bottles, but the man is stronger. However, Benjy appears just in time, and he uses his catapult again and hits him with a stone.
Chops arrives at the house to find that Benjy has stopped these three men from hurting Roger and those in the house. Carol also arrives after she was notified to go to the house to see to some injured people, and now she discovers that the injured people are the robbers and Benjy is the one to have disarmed them.
On Christmas Day Carol gets a phone call, informing her that Charles is alive but is kept prisoner, and she feels very relieved and happy. Chops is invited to have lunch with them, and they have a resonably good time despite the circumstances.
The epilogue has a couple of surprises for us. The first one is connected to the vicar, who the children met on the train and whose service Carol and the children have attended a couple of times. We discover that he has a secret radio transmitter, and he is a Nazy symapthiser who follows Lord Haw-Haw, and broadcasts his messages against the British people. The second surprise is about Charles. In the place he is kept prisoner, three new prisoners arrive. Captain Pat Reid welcomes them, and one of them says that he is from the RAF, and when Reid points at Charles Sinclair as another pilot, the man says that he went to school with Charles Sinclair, and that man is definitely not Charles. So who is this man?
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