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Cawthorne Castle stands upon the brow of the first of a small range of hills that rise somewhat abruptly from the flat country surrounding the shipbuilding town of Stayton. In olden days the Earls of Cawthorne had owned every foot of land, which could be seen from the Castle's topmost turret. But time and the encroachment of circumstances had contracted their holdings to a few thousand acres of parks and coverts.
In exchange, however, for the alienated territories they had received so generous an interest in the profits of the industrial life of the place, that for more than a century no scion of the house had envied the rent-rolls of his ancestors.