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PART SECOND. CHAPTER I. TREVANNANCE, OF ROYAL, REST. 7 It lay deep down 3 in the green heart of the Devon wood, ‘that stately Norman pile known as “Royal Rest.” Long and many a day ago, Norman masons had reared ts lofty turrets, its massive, battlemented towers, its won- _ drous pinnacles, its superb ranges of Gothic windows, its _ rich and rare carved stone-work and buttresses, where the ns ivy and wild dog-roses bloomed luxuriantly now—a noble and storied old mansion that had stood / many a siege, where exiled king and hunted prince -had « Sought and found shelter in the troubled days gone by. Royal Rest had been the noblest possession of a great Vand noble house—the only remainder of a long bead-roll of such possessions. It had been the sanctuary of hunted okie nobles; countless Tory plots had been hatched Q between its orand old walls. Cromwell’s petronels had » battered it in vain when Lord Dudley Trevannance held “it with a handful of retainers, and lost his title and fair, E broad lands fighting for the “White Rose and the long _heads of hair.”’ _A grand old place! In its deep, dark forest lands the ‘rare red deer trooped in countless herds. In its black woodland pools the ‘wild fowl flocked in legions. Its glancing river was famed far and wide for char ~ and trout, and on its sedgy margin the water lilies waved, * and the white swans “floated double, swan and shadow.” ‘ _ Nowhere else in all sunny Devon abounded the par- _ tridges, the pheasants, and the rabbits as they abounded %, ee series else crowded the.teal and mallard in the : still, dark tarns, as they crowded at Royal Rest—a ter- _ restrial paradise, =ODME Gheen to the sunlit sea, icbooks, . OE pS eon ne i ay on ‘com Kel oxo) com on Beg . ; = " a t 4 f pis RSs t ’ ms 4 Ny nl pei) 7 Naa ; . 5 7s) ig i Lal ' i ; ve ir, Pris, eat a We he GY f Ay Vere i . Bessel ; sat whey Priva? AM { a hy OR Sb Vs er Mi é ty : 7 o ifn 4 ‘ 7 ' all ll (4, it Ng . Vive ee hs » so > a Ady , . . Ave ae ' | at ri YY "pA A < * ‘% _* . LP oa yi tdabe, 6 Oi Mie Vd 4 - 7 we t ry > ‘3 Os m TDS ne i a. f ‘ BL | poet) : 7; . + y ,. Ahm) ae We mT) Ns