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THE BRIGHTON ROAD 



investment in jobbery and corruption, by which he 

 hoped, in the course of shrewd political wire-pulling, 

 to obtain a cent per cent return. 



He was a humorist of a cynical turn who built in 



front of the great mansion in midst of the park a 



' Town Hall " for the no'n-existent town, and inscribed 



GATTON HALL AND " TOWN HALL." 



C\tiM&fitt — . 



on the urn which stands by this freakish, temple-like 

 structure the motto, satirical in this setting, " Salus 

 populi suprema lex esto," together with other sardonic 

 Latin, to the effect that no votes sullied by bribery 

 should be given. 



