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"ESCAPED FROM GARDENS" 



ON a round hill-top, so abrupt that you 

 might have jumped from it down to the 

 winding river valley, stands the Lilac 

 House. Those who built it there, long time 

 ago, surely had keener eyes for beauty than their 

 neighbors, for, as in the case of many remote 

 farming hamlets, Lonetown had usually built its 

 scattering houses in hollows, using the hills for 

 windbreaks, its people being content to have before 

 them no more distant prospect than a barn, a 

 woodshed, a fowl -house, or a hayrick or two. 

 The Lilac House might have been a watch - 



