300 THE PALACE STABLE ()E I). EDGAR CROUSE. 



might invite, as his principle is, Not extravagant to have what 

 one can afford to have. His unostentatious life, his general 

 wish to avoid display, his natural dislike to public life, all 

 speak in the study of this structure and its organization, and 

 the one grand thought, " I built it for myself and for my own 

 use." 



He has found in the author of this book a life-long friend, 

 whose integrity of purpose in all transactions made him 

 worthy of doing what the past will never reveal as modesty 

 by birth forbids his repeating his generosity toward him, as 

 few gain his confidence, and those who have are not legion. 



