Chapter 1. The Meeting In The Maple Walk
_ CHAPTER I. THE MEETING IN THE MAPLE WALK
St George‘s Hall, situated on a high hill overlooking the city of Warwick, was still silent and tenantless, though the long vacation was drawing to a close. To a stranger passing that way for the first time, the building and the surrounding country would doubtless have suggested the old England rather than the new. There was something mediaeval in the massive, castellated tower that carried the eye upward past the great, arched doorway, the thin, deep-set windows, the leaded eaves and grinning gargoyles, into the cool sky of the September morning.
The stranger, were he rich in good traditions, would pause in admiration of the pure collegiate-gothic style of the low hall that extended north and south three hundred feet in either direction from the base of the great tower； he would note the artistry of the iron-braced, oaken doors, flanked at the lintels by inscrutable faces of carven stone, o

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