"Man carrying a carpet bag and wearing a top-hat." — John McLenan's uncaptioned headnote vignette for the thirtieth weekly number of Wilkie Collins's "The Woman in White" in Harper's Weekly (16 June 1860) (original) (raw)

Man carrying a carpet bag and wearing a top-hat.

John McLenan

16 June 1860

9.8 cm high by 5.7 cm wide (3 ¾ by 2 ¼ inchess), vignetted.

Uncaptioned headnote vignette for the thirtieth weekly number of Collins's The Woman in White: A Novel (16 June 1860), 380; p. 189 in the 1861 volume.

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McLenan notes in advance of the instalment that Walter had realizes he has been spied upon at Kyrle's office. One of those same spies now appears at Blackwater Park: this can be no mere coincidence. He realizes that this agent of Fosco and Glyde has anticipated his arrival in Hampshire.

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