Aside for development of action in the plot in chapter twenty, this chapter emphasizes the serious nature of the conspiracy because someone as simple as a Justice of the Peace magistrate, cannot be trusted. Their is not loyalty, in who to believe and who not to. You never know who is really working with Sir Philip. “The whole countryside is riddled with treason---even the magistrates. Who is loyal? Who can be trusted”(p.234)? This chapter emphasizes that if Kit had not found out the true meaning behind Mr.Armthwaite by putting all the puzzle, they would have got caught by Sir Philip. “‘If you touch that bell-cord,’ said Kit in a high nervous voice behind me, ‘you’ll get something that will upset you more!’ ….. ‘You know,’ she said. ‘Stand
