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THE MORTOVER GRANGE AFFAIR

alized how that pit would transform the district—but he was not so much concerned with the colliery and its prospects as with the ancient home of the Mortovers. A turn in the road brought that in sight—an old, old house, high-gabled, dark, mysterious, set in a hollow of the hills.