1. NOVEMBER THE TWENTY-NINTHThe search began at dawn, but a quarter past nine o'clock came
without bringing any result. Manston ate a little breakfast, and
crossed the hollow of the park which intervened between the old and
modern manor-houses, to ask for an interview with Miss
Aldclyffe.
He met her midway. She was about to pay him a visit of
condolence, and to place every man on the estate at his disposal,
that the search for any relic of his dead and destroyed wife might
not be delayed an instant.
He accompanied her back to the house. At first they conversed as
if the death of the poor woman was an event which the husband must
of necessity deeply lament; and when all under this head that
social form seemed to require had been uttered, they spoke of the
material damage done,
