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Twenty miles away in the core of the wilderness, removed from a

railroad by a score of semi-perpendicular miles, a fanatic had once

decided to found a school The fact that the establishment in this

place of such a school as his mind pictured was sheer madness and

i that could

not be done, and it was a thing that he had done none the less

Now a faculty of ten ht such as cared to cos as they cared to

learn Substantial two-and three-storied buildings of square-hewn logs

lay grouped in a sort of Arts and Crafts village around a clean-clipped

cae property stretched twenty acres square at

the foot of a hill The drone of its o-mill came across the

valley In a book-lined library, wainscoted in natural woods of three

colors, the original fanatic often sat reflecting pleasurably on his

folly Higher up the hillside stood a s table and a case of surgical instruments, which, it

was said, the State could not surpass These things had been the gifts

of friends who liked such a type of God-inspired madness A "fotched-on"

trained nurse was in attendance Froeons came to Hixon by rail, rode twenty miles on mules, and held