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"Not a bit," he said "Twenty years ago Bit of garden to the house

with the big trees and cedars All the rest fields and a great

up-and-down gravel pit"

"And you made it like this?" I cried with animation

He nodded

"Like it?" he asked

"Like it!" I cried "Oh!"

"Co here"

I followed hiave his head a

jerk over his right shoulder

"House!" he said

I looked in the indicated direction, and could see the very handsoreen verandah in the front, and a

great range of conservatories at one end, whose glass glistened in the

evening light The house stood on a kind of terrace, and lawn, and

patches of flowers and shrubs sloped away froravel, pits," said Mr Solo"

He walked up to a great thick yew hedge with an archway of deep green in

it, and as soon as ere through he said shortly: "Useful"

I stared onder, for though I was now in a fruit and vegetable

garden it onderfully different to Old Brownsmith's, for here, in

addition to exquisite neatness, there was some attereen arch ere on a great grass