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I can't tell you how much obliged I am to you." He took the small packet and placed it on the window-ledge and Mr. Kitson passed into the house. "Honestly, doctor, what do you think of his chance?" he asked. Dr. van Heerden shrugged his shoulders. "Honestly, I do not think he will recover consciousness." "Heavens!" The lawyer was shocked. The tragic suddenness of it all stunned him.
The banquet narrowly escaped being a terrible fiasco. For the first time in my association with them, I had a difference of opinion with Kitson and Mathers regarding the arrangements for the dinner. The cost of erecting the special dining-hall was, of course, very considerable. I proposed that it should be met by a uniform charge of two guineas for the dinner tickets.
If she is what I think she is, she'll lay a trap for me I'll fall for it, but I'm going to get next to van Heerden to-night." Kitson accompanied him to the door of the hotel. "Take no unnecessary risks," he said at parting, "don't forget that you're a married man." "That's one of the things I want to forget if you'll let me," said the exasperated young man.
He did not see the momentary tenderness in her eyes, because he was not looking at her, and went on: "That's the whole of the grisly story. Mr. Kitson will advise you as to what steps you may take to free yourself. It was a most horrible blunder, and it was all the more tragic because you were the victim, you of all the persons in the world!"
"It's a queer world," said Kitson. "It may be queerer," responded Beale, then boldly: "How is my wife?" "Your well, I like your nerve!" gasped Kitson. "I thought you preferred it that way how is Miss Cresswell?" "The nurse says she is doing famously. She is sleeping now; but she woke up for food and is nearly normal. She did not ask for you," he added pointedly. Beale flushed and laughed.
"I am going to interview a gentleman who will probably give me a great deal of information about van Heerden's other residences." "Has he many?" asked Kitson, in surprise. Beale nodded. "He has been hiring buildings and houses for the past three months," he said quietly, "and he has been so clever that I will defy you to trace one of them.
"And you can bet it doesn't fill me with rollicking high spirits," snapped Beale; "it's a most awful situation." "What are you going to do?" asked the other again. "What are you going to do?" replied the exasperated Beale, "after all, you're her lawyer." "And you're her husband," said Kitson grimly, "which reminds me." He walked to his desk and took up a slip of paper.
Trenire's elder daughter." Miss Richards was deeply grieved to have to write such unpleasant tidings to him, but she begged he would make strict inquiries into the matter at once. In the meantime Miss Lettice Kitson, who was forbidden to leave her room, refused to make any communication on the matter. "How dare she!" cried Kitty. "How dare she accuse me of doing such a thing!
And bankers use it as the basis for money and credit, not because, as Mr Kitson says, they selected it owing to its scarcity, but because this quality of universal acceptability made it the thing in which all debts, both at home and abroad, could be paid.
Partly," said the lawyer dryly, "because this block of flats happens to be her own property and the lady who is supposed to be the landlady is a nominee of mine." "And I suppose that explains Mr. Beale," smiled the inspector. "That explains Mr. Beale," said Kitson, "whom I brought from New York especially to shadow van Heerden and to protect the girl. In the course of investigations Mr.
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