These men had been boys together, their careers the same; they had married sisters.

But the red tobacco sheds of Malvern were only three hundred feet long--this general had left a leg at Malvern Hill--while the Brookfield sheds stretched full five hundred feet.

At Brookfield, too, were the great racing-stables, of fabulous acreage; disused now and falling to decay.

One hundred and sixty thoroughbreds had sheltered here of old, with an army of grooms and trainers.

There had been a race-track--an oval mile at first, a kite-shaped mile in later days.