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Updated: May 14, 2025
Hilltop School stands on the top of a hill overlooking the Connecticut Valley, a cluster of half a dozen ivy-draped buildings of which only one, the new gymnasium, looks less than a hundred years old. Seventy-six feet by forty it is, built of red sandstone with freestone trimming; a fine, aristocratic-looking structure which lends quite an air to the old campus.
No time was lost, the two boys going off at a trot round by the back of the town and aiming for the shore, where by descending a very steep bit of ivy-draped and ragwort-dotted cliff they could get down to a row of black sheds used for fish-drying and the storage of nets, which lay snugly upon a shelf of the cliff.
It was all rather nebulous, save for the dominant girlish figure, which bore a definite resemblance to Melissa Merriam. Then, with the sliding ease which obtains when fancy is the stage director, the scene shifted. Vast, elaborately beautiful grounds rolled majestically up to a large, ivy-draped house, which had turrets like a castle very picturesque.
And wishing to have a better view of the lines, I rode toward Blandford. Do you remember the ivy-draped ruins of the old "Blandford church," my dear reader? This is one of our Virginia antiquities, and is worth seeing. Around the ruins the large graveyard is full of elegant tombstones.
Darting a hasty glance at the ivy-draped windows nearest the road, and finding that she was not observed, she hurried to meet him. "Betsy," he whispered, "I must see Martha again before I leave, and you must tell me how." "Tell me how. Folks say that lovyers' wits are sharp," said she, "but I wouldn't give much for either o' your'n.
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