"What places for homes!" For a moment Darrow looked at him without speaking; and then he answered in a voice which sounded as impersonal as the distant rumble of street cars.

"I thought you might be interested because these houses, these and the other rows on the next block or two, are part of the Culpeper estate." "The Culpeper estate ?" repeated Stephen in an expressionless tone; and raising his eyes again he looked up at the bleak houses.

In that instant, it seemed to him that he was seeing, not the sharp projection of the roofs against the ashen sky, but a long line of pleasant and prosperous generations.

Beyond him stood his father, beyond his father stood his grandfather, beyond the tranquil succession of his grandfathers stood--what?
Civilization?
Humanity?
"Do you mean," he asked quietly, "that we--our family--own these houses ?" "The whole block, and the next, and the next.

It is the Culpeper estate.
You've never seen 'em before, I reckon.