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Updated: May 16, 2025
"If we are to keep up the standards of our class club, we should not overlook this for a minute. The book was found in Kit's desk and that is enough." Bet somehow got to the middle of the room, her face red and her hair tousled. She frowned on Vivian, and the girl dropped to her seat without another word. "That must not be put to a motion.
It is said, as illustrative of Kit's promptness of action, that one night an inexperienced guard shouted "Indians." In an instant Kit was on his feet, pistol in hand. A dark object was approaching him. The loss of a second of time might enable a savage to bury his arrow-head deep in his side and to disappear in the darkness. Like a flash of lightning Kit fired and shot his mule.
'You may drive me, said the single gentleman, 'to the He was not going to add 'inn, but he added it for the sake of Kit's mother; and to the inn they went. Rumours had already got abroad that the little girl who used to show the wax-work, was the child of great people who had been stolen from her parents in infancy, and had only just been traced.
It was impossible to get past Kit's wall of evasion when she chose to take refuge behind it. "Well, never mind how it has happened," she said happily. "I'm sure that you managed it in some way, and I can tell you right now, it has happened in the nick of time. You have no idea, Kit, how I have dreaded going back to the city and leaving things as they are.
And when school opened the next day Edith had to face the class and say that she had put the book into Kit's desk in order to get her into trouble. Kit was thankful that the suspicion against her was gone, but she pitied Edith. "I don't understand her!" exclaimed the girl to her friends later. "I'm anxious to be friends and she won't let me."
Thus the famous Kit's Coty House in Kent was certainly not a dolmen, though it is now impossible to say what its form was. Wayland the Smith's Cave was probably a three-chambered corridor-tomb covered with a mound. The famous Men-an-tol in Cornwall may well be all that is left of a chamber-tomb of some kind. It is a slab about 3-1/2 feet square, in which is a hole 1-1/2 feet in diameter.
Since there had been no invasion from Salisbury, he had regretted the not having gone himself to Ardres, and he knew pretty well that Kit's power lay more in his arms than in his brain. He did not wonder at the small gain, nor at the having lost sight of the young man, and confidently expected the lost ones soon to appear.
From that time Kit's was a useful, pleasant life, moving on in a peaceful routine of duties and innocent joys from day to day, and from week to week, until the great, longed-for epoch of his life arrived the day of receiving, for the first time, one-fourth part of his annual income of Six Pounds.
No one knows about it except me and Dad." "Bet, you're a sport! I like you! Now, forget that you ever blamed me, and don't feel badly about it." They hurried ahead to catch up with the others and all met at Kit's gate. "Isn't it a wonderful night!" Bet exclaimed suddenly, looking up into the sky. "Why, I never saw so many stars before! They fairly sing!"
It was obvious that Adam knew the family history, for Christopher Askew was a turbulent Jacobite who lost the most part of his estate when he joined Prince Charlie's starving Highlanders in the rearguard fight at Clifton Moor. Afterwards the sober quietness at Ashness had now and then been disturbed by an Askew who inherited the first Kit's reckless temperament.
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