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The street upon which the Palace Hotel fronted fore of the tohere it turned to the

south for a quarter of a ain So close on the road, a

large brick house, the most pretentious mansion in Carlow County And yet

it was a homelike place, with its red-brick walls einia creeper, and a co the broad front,

while half a hundred stalwart sentinels of eluard around it The front as bordered by geraniums and hollyhocks;

and honeysuckle climbed the pillars of the porch Behind the house there

was a shady little orchard; and, back of the orchard, an old-fashioned,

very fragrant rose-garden, divided by a long grape arbor, extended to the

shalloaters of a wandering creek; and on the bank a rustic seat was

placed, beneath the sycamores

From the first bend of the road, where it left the town and becahway--called the pike--rather than a proud

city boulevard, a pathway led through the fields to end at some pasture

bars opposite the brick house

John Harkless was leaning on the pasture bars The stars an, and the

full moon shone over the fields Meadows and woodlands lay quiet under the

old, sweet ht In the widethat the whole earth is stretched out

before one To-night it seemed to lie so, in the pathos of silent beauty,