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.