. Wisconsin medical recorder . fleecy clouds were until the waning light and the flittingof the bats warned him it was time to bemoving. Hugh Grays house was a square,solemn edifice, that stood on a cliff, fac-ing the ocean with its time worn was concealed by the cliffs, andfrom its location received its name—the hidden mansion. It was over-grown with vines, and standing as it didin full sight of the ocean, presented amost venerable appearance. The househad been built in the colonial days by i WISCONSIN MEDICAL RECORDER 381 man who had brought with him from themother country, English
. Wisconsin medical recorder . fleecy clouds were until the waning light and the flittingof the bats warned him it was time to bemoving. Hugh Grays house was a square,solemn edifice, that stood on a cliff, fac-ing the ocean with its time worn was concealed by the cliffs, andfrom its location received its name—the hidden mansion. It was over-grown with vines, and standing as it didin full sight of the ocean, presented amost venerable appearance. The househad been built in the colonial days by i WISCONSIN MEDICAL RECORDER 381 man who had brought with him from themother country, English ideas of homesof comfort. Pointed gables and cluster-ing chimney tops, protruding and oddlyshaped windows, high, narrow doors andheavy cornices were some of its charac-teristics. The mansion was built in themiddle of a few acres of pleasure groundwhich had been neglected for brick walls divided the propertyfrom the rest of the world. Foreigntrees, rare shrubs, weather-stainedstatues, moss grown fountains and grass. ...J/ The bird of ill omen covered walks were sorrowfully sugges-tive of bygone grandeur. Indoors it wasmuch the same—echoing corridors,crooked staircases, unexpected roomswith painted ceilings, in unexpectedplaces, approached by unexpected these rooms the spiders had madethemselves an eden in the dust and dark-ness. A few of the rooms of the large,bare apartments on the ground floor wereoccupied by Gray. In Grays livingroom there was a long mirror oppositethe fireplace, and the room was lighted by French windows opening on a ter-race that ended on one side at the gravelsweep before the entrance; on the otherside at the wall an iron door admittinginto the fruit garden. A dismal row ofterra-cotta vases ornamented the fartheredge of this walk, and a broken set ofsteps led down to a lawn where the grasshad grown rank around a deep basin ofstagnant water. The lawn itself wasbordered by a thick row of laurels thathid the outer walls. The years which
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