Death of My Aunt

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C. H. B. Kitchin. Death of My Aunt

Death of My Aunt

Table of Contents

I. FRIDAY NIGHT: LONDON

II. FRIDAY NIGHT: MACEBURY

III. SATURDAY: BREAKFAST

IV. MY AUNT (Saturday, 10.40 A.M.)

V. THE DOCTOR (Saturday, 11.30 A.M.)

VI. THE POLICE (Saturday, luncheon)

VII. MY EAVESDROPPING (Saturday, after luncheon)

VIII. MY MEDITATION (Saturday, before tea)

IX. TEA (Saturday)

X. A WALK WITH AUNT ANNE (Saturday, after tea)

XI. SATURDAY EVENING

XII. SUNDAY MORNING, AFTERNOON, AND EVENING (i) Morning

(ii) Afternoon

(iii) Evening

XIII. MY HEROISM (Midnight, Sunday-Monday)

XIV. PROGRESS (Monday, 1 A.M.)

XV. THE NEW SITUATION (Monday, 1.30 A.M.)

XVI. MONDAY MORNING

“Amos Glaize,

XVII. MY MOTHER’S LETTER (Monday Afternoon)

XVIII. UP A TREE (Monday Evening)

XIX. CATASTROPHE (Monday, 7.15 P.M.)

XX. APPENDIX

A. The Story of Anne Carvel

B. The Case Against Hannibal Cartwright

C. After the Case

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C. H. B. Kitchin

Published by Good Press, 2021

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I must confess that, in the hope of persuading Aunt Catherine to take a more active interest in the services which I could render her, I had sent Uncle Hannibal a reasonable article on the dangers of letting investments look after themselves for too long. This little piece of touting had been more a matter of form than anything else—an effort to support in print the suggestions which I had let fall verbally from time to time.

“Of course,” he went on, “you’ll wonder why she didn’t write, or ask me to write, and what’s the hurry anyway? But she likes things done quickly, you know. I’m quite in the dark myself. You’d be surprised how little I know about her affairs. Maybe she’s going in for a big gamble, though I told her you said it wasn’t the time, with New York on the selling tack. But when women are getting on—”

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