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Chapter 2. Good for nothing.

The November night is darkest.

Foggyest, wetdest and windiest.

Out on the open road that leads into Slapperton.

A dreary road, at the best of times, the Slapperton road,

and dreariest of all in one spot about a mile and a half out of the town.

Upon this spot stands a solitary house, known as the Black Mill.

It was once the cottage of a miller, and the mill still stands, though in disuse.

The cottage had been altered and improved within the last few years,

and made into a tolerable sized house.

A dreary, rambling, tumble-down place, it is true, but still was some

pretension about it.

It was occupied at this time by a widow lady, a Mrs. Marwood,

once the owner of a large fortune which had nearly all been squandered by the

dissipation of her only son.

This son had long left Slapperton.

His mother had not heard of him for years.

Some said he had gone abroad.

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