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Three years of neglect had left their mark upon the Pine Croft bungalow. The stables, the corral, the paddock for the thoroughbred riding horses were in woeful disrepair. The garden was riotous with a tangled mass of weeds and flowers. The water main from the little lake in the hills above, an engineering triumph of Gaspard and the joy of his wife, was broken and the water running in a flood over the lawn.
"What a shame! What a ghastly shame! And the whole place used to be so wonderful! So perfect! It is a cruel shame! " The Colonel's wife was quite petulant over it. "And so unnecessary! Why didn't he pull himself together and play the man?"