The narrow dirt road runs near U.S. 50, close to Middleburg, Va. As it comes to a dead end, a green-painted plank gate on the left bars the entrance to a private byway named Segregation Lane, which runs along the zealously observed boundary between the hunt territories of the Piedmont Fox Hounds and the Orange County Hunt. Beyond the green gate, on Rattlesnake Mountain,* armed U.S. Secret Service agents live in green G.I. tents, keeping 24-hour guard around a still-uncompleted country home. When the home is finished, about April 1, Jack and...
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