The pleasantest days of his boyhood were spent here with Thomas Clarkson Verity, his great uncle--who eventually left him the property--nor had he ever failed later to visit it when home on leave.

In pious remembrance of that distant era and of his entertaining and affectionate, if somewhat eccentric, host and friend he forbade any alteration in the house or grounds.

It continued to-day just as old Mr.Verity left it.

There was no break, even in details of furnishing or arrangement, with the past.

This, to Sir Charles, added to the natural restfulness of the place.