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264 THE HOUSE THAT SHADOWS BUILT
remove, he was taking it as medicine; the country had never attracted him. But it was as though his background came forward and enveloped him, as though the blood of a thousand ancestors who farmed the hill-slopes of Hungary rose up in his veins. Suddenly, he grew enamoured of the pastoral life. He added seven hundred more acres, transformed the stone building into a kind of communal kitchen, dining room, and living room, connected it by arcades with a guest house and a separate residence for his immediate family. As years went on, bringing a fantastic increase of income, he laid out a private golf links, a gardened swimming pool below gardened tennis courts, greenhouses, herds of blooded stock, even a little theatre for private exhibitions of moving pictures.
From his office on Times Square, his automobile takes him in less than an hour, his power boat in less than forty minutes, to the gates of this estate. And it seems a thousand miles from Broadway. The Palisades, sloping on their landward side to abrupt hills, rim it to eastward as with a segment of a bowl. The houses stand on a series of knolls which look even to the maroon hazes of distance over clipped meadow and thick forest. Through its heart a brook, alive with brown trout, cuts for itself a miniature canon and drops over a waterfall. The district surrounding Zukor’s find dwells an hour from Broadway in a state of pastoral innocence. The pioneers were an offshoot from the original Dutch settlers of