"
[The preceding letter is thus indorsed, in Mr. Pendril's handwriting:
"No apparent means of tracing the inclosed to its source. Post-mark,
'Charing Cross.' Stationer's stamp cut off the inside of the envelope.
Handwriting, probably a man's, in disguise. Writer, whoever he is,
correctly informed. No further trace of the younger Miss Vanstone
discovered yet."]
THE SECOND SCENE.
SKELDERGATE, YORK.
CHAPTER I.
IN that part of the city of York which is situated on the western bank
of the Ouse there is a narrow street, called Skeldergate, running nearly
north and south, parallel with the course of the river. The postern by
which Skeldergate was formerly approached no longer exists; and the few
old houses left in the street are disguised in melancholy modern
costume of whitewash and cement. Shops of the smaller and poorer order,
intermixed here and there with dingy warehouses and joyless private
residences of red brick, compose the present a spect of Skeldergate. On
the river-side the houses are separated at intervals by lanes running
down to the water, and disclosing lonely little plots of open ground,
with the masts of sailing-barges rising beyond.
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