12 York St
Covent Garden.
[ 1898 ]
ALL IN THE DARK.
CHAPTER I.
GILROYD HALL AND ITS MISTRESS.
Near the ancient and pretty village of Saxton, with its gabled side to the road, stands an old red-brick house of moderate dimensions, called Gilroyd Hall, with some tall elms of very old date about it; and an ancient, brick walled garden, overtopping the road with standard fruit-trees, that have quite outgrown the common stature of such timber, and have acquired a sylvan and venerable appearance.