"Where are we going?" he asked.

"To 'Black Forest,'" said Oliver.

"And what was that we passed?"

"That was the gate-keeper's lodge," was Oliver's reply.






CHAPTER IV





They ran for about three miles upon a broad macadamized avenue, laid
straight as an arrow's flight through the forest; and then the sound
of the sea came to them, and before them was a mighty granite pile,
looming grim in the twilight, with a draw-bridge and moat, and four
great castellated towers. "Black Forest" was built in imitation of a
famous old fortress in Provence--only the fortress had forty small
rooms, and its modern prototype had seventy large ones, and now
every window was blazing with lights. A man does not let himself be
caught twice in such a blunder; and having visited a
"shooting-lodge" which had cost three-quarters of a million dollars