IV - MYSTERY
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MR. HILL'S house at the far end of the village was an eccentric building. Originally it had been a laborer’s cottage, and stood by itself, a stone-throw away from the crooked highway which bisected Wargrove. On arriving in the neighborhood some twenty-five years before, Mr. Hill had bought the cottage and five acres of land around. These he enclosed with a high wall of red brick, and then set to work to turn the cottage into a mansion. As he was his own architect, the result was a strange mingling of styles.
The original cottage remained much as it was, with a thatched roof and whitewashed walls. But to the left, rose a round tower built quite in the medieval style, to the right stretched a two-story mansion with oriel windows, a terrace and Tudor battlements. At t
