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"As I was saying when Titus left the room, this morning was the time fixed by the kidnapers for their grand stroke. You, in all ignorance of it, and we, too, for that matter, though we were all on the alert, watched little Bethany go to school. She was quietly and happily doing her tasks with the other children when at ten o'clock there was an arrival at her teacher's front door."
"I think you said that you took Mrs. Hume into your confidence," remarked the Judge.