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Late that afternoon Lance returned to the neighborhood of the Beardmore Linen Mills. In addition to the ornamental grounds surrounding the mills, the Beardmores had purchased a large tract of land opposite and had presented it to the city to be used as a park for the benefit of their employees and the public generally. Naturally it had been given their name.
Lance found a bench inside the park that was sufficiently screened from view, yet afforded a good point of reconnaissance. The handsome little building housing the offices of the firm faced him, with the ornamental pool between it and the street. Tall cypresses rose at each end of the pool, with brilliant beds of late-blooming flowers in the fore-ground.