Crossword-Solution: HIGHCOURT 9 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 18

Like a bit of real California, "Highcourt," as they had called the place, was a perpetual bower of bloom and fragrance and sunshine, with a broad panorama of valley, sea, and mountain to gaze upon.

And there began at Highcourt a rťgime of retrenchment, bitterly fought by Adelle--the rich man's poverty where there is no actual want, but a series of petty curtailments and borrowings and sometimes a real shortness of cash, almost as squalid as the commoner sort of poverty.

Adelle could not understand the reason for this sudden change, and refused absolutely to stop all work upon Highcourt and go abroad again for the sake of economy.

The men employed at Highcourt were thus obtained in San Francisco by the head contractor and merely boarded in the town of Bellevue.

One of the men she recognized as having been steadily on the job ever since her arrival at Highcourt.