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CHAPTER II. A REVELATION, THE country-place of Mr. Hetlow, at which he lived six months of each year, was on the Hudson, above Dobbs Ferry. A princely estate in all save territory, what it lacked in extent, it made up in the superb state of its cultivation and the extreme beauty of the grounds which immediately surrounded the house. Mr. Hetlow was an Englishman, but he had lived from early manhood in America, so long indeed that he had forgotten that he had ever been a British sub- ject. His favorite boast was that he was a good American citizen, with a comfortable stake in the country. His father, when alive, had had an inter- est in the firm of Samuel Dugdale & Son, of London, the name by which the firm had been known for nearly two centuries. It would not do, perhaps, to say that he was a partner, but, as was the custom of that house after years of faithful service, the responsible heads were given a share in the profits in addition to their salaries. ‘This had made him rich, and, as he was the manager of the concern, had given him rank and in- fluence. When, in the course of the needs of the widely extending business, it appeared that an agent in New York City was advisable, he was influential enough to secure the appointment for his son Howard, the present Hetlow, then employed in the home office and about thirty. In the New World the young man thrived, broad- ened out into business on his own account, and, with Io Comicloeoe S C@ 3