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The daring incidents which give life to this tale take the reader back to the days of the Pretender, Charles Edward Stuart. Beau Brocade, a cashiered army officer of high birth, is dropped from the army for justly chastising a superior officer. He becomes a chivalrous highwayman, robbing rich men and extortioners and dropping many of the guineas so secured into Wirkworth’s poor box. His heroism, his chivalry, all his qualities of knighthood are called into play in aiding one Lady Patience Gascoyne to free her brother from the charge of traitorship to the king. As a reward he is restored to the army and wins the hand of the heroine in spite of the machinations of a titled rival.
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“Baroness Orczy writes in a breezy, galloping style, which does not scorn any amount of meretricious adornment.”
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Orczy, Baroness. Gates of Kamt; il. by the Kinneys. †$1.50. Dodd.
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“In ‘The gates of Kamt,’ two young Englishmen discover ancient Egypt hidden away beyond the desert, with language, customs, Pharaohs, embalming and all just as it used to be. The author out-Haggards Haggard in riotous and luxuriant description.”—Outlook.