Excerpt from Mark Manly, or the Skipper's Lad He was about to discharge his musket and give the alarm when a man, who had a quarter of an hour before got over the wall of the grave-yard, and stolen along by its shadow, and had been for some time watch ing him from the obscurity, sprang out and grasped his hand and the weapon. Resist and you are adead man, ' he said in alow resolute voice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.