"I'VE SOLD THE TREASURY DRY!" 147 



Maynard's protean forms he was an architect 

 and the plans he had made for an addition to the 

 Castle fascinated me and I employed him to 

 carry them out. His careful estimate of the cost 

 extended to dollars and footed up to something 

 like twenty-five thousand of them. The work 

 progressed at a cost of a thousand dollars a day 

 and I gave it little thought during the week, but 

 on Saturday nights went up to inspect it. For 

 twenty weeks the work continued and was little 

 above the foundation, although the original cost 

 of the place had been doubled when calamity 

 came and I left the quarried, matched and 

 dressed stone in heaps to find inglorious service 

 in the building of cisterns for the country 

 round. 



