[Left End Edwards by Ralph Henry Barbour]@TWC D-Link bookLeft End Edwards CHAPTER V 1/19
NUMBER 12 BILLINGS The woods had given way to open fields, and they could follow with their eyes the course of the road ahead as it turned to the left and ran, almost parallel to the railroad, past where a pair of stone gate-posts guarded the entrance to the Academy.
From the gate a drive went winding upward, hidden now and then by trees and shrubs, to where, at the crest of a hill, a half-dozen buildings looked down upon them with numberless windows. "That's Main Hall," said Tom, "the big one in the centre.
I remember it in the catalogue." "And that's the gym at this end," added Steve.
"It's a pretty good looking place, isn't it? What's the building where the tall chimney is, driver ?" "Torrence.
There's rooms upstairs and a dining-room on the first floor. That chimney's from the kitchen at the back.
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