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But Beale was half-way to Kitson's sitting-room, arriving there in time to meet McNorton who had handed over his charge to his subordinate. "I've found it!" cried Beale. "Found what?" asked Kitson. "The code!" "Where? How?" asked McNorton. "Unless I am altogether wrong the code is contained, either engraved on the case or written on a slip of paper enclosed within the case of a watch.
I went to Kitson's home, where they knew as little as I did of his death, and verily his place had closed up behind him, so that I scarce think his mother even cared to see him more, and the whole of them seemed more concerned at his amity with Trenton than proud of his feats of arms.
Hearing that Kitson's mother lived not a mile out of his way, Malcolm rode to the fine old moated grange, where he found her sitting at her spinning, presiding over a great plentiful household, while her second son, a much shrewder-looking man than Sir Christopher, managed the farm.
None of the Trenire children liked Lady Kitson, though they could hardly have told you why. Poor Kitty felt now that she disliked her exceedingly. "Come into the drawing-room; the girls are there." "The girls" were Lady Kitson's step-daughters. They were both of them older than Kitty, but were inclined to be very friendly.
Beale came back from Barking, whither he had gone to interview a choleric commercial traveller who bore some facial resemblance to van Heerden, and had been arrested in consequence, and discovered that something like a Council of War was being held in Kitson's private room. McNorton and two of his assistants were present.
Mr Kitson's view that the volume of trade is limited by the quantity of currency and credit is thus based on confusion between volume and value.
How beautifully those guns covered our retreat! and the first mortar that sent the howling devils flying in air like so many Will-o'the-wisps, who placed that, Wentworth?" "I did," replied the officer, with a quickness that denoted a natural feeling of exultation; "but Bombardier Kitson's was the most effective.
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