So at last they reached a lake, winding like a snake among towering
hills, and with a huge baronial castle standing out upon the rocky
shore. This imitation fortress was the "camp."
Bertie's father had built it, and visited it only half a dozen times
in his life. Bertie himself had only been here twice, he said. The
deer were so plentiful that in the winter they died in scores.
Nevertheless there were thirty game-keepers to guard the ten
thousand acres of forest, and prevent anyone's hunting in it. There
were many such "preserves" in this Adiron-dack wilderness, so
Montague was told; one man had a whole mountain fenced about with
heavy iron railing, and had moose and elk and even wild boar inside.
And as for the "camps," there were so many that a new style of
architecture had been developed here--to say nothing of those which
followed old styles, like this imported Rhine castle. One of
Bertie's crowd had a big Swiss chalet; and one of the Wallings had a
Japanese palace to which he came every August--a house which had
been built from plans drawn in Japan, and by labourers imported
especially from Japan.
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