Excerpt from The Blue Room There was a whoop of joy from the telephone closet in the hall, a rush back into the dining-room, and a message read in a young, round voice which trembled with something more than excitement. Embark this morning Leviathan with whole bunch Major Bill Mortimer in charge loud cheers Tom. Nearly performing the nose trick with a mouth ful of coffee, Wainwright set down his cup, Sprang to his feet, seized the girl with the dancing eyes and whirled her round the pompous and astonished room. The dead accuracy of banking had not succeeded in drying up the well of emotion in this man's soul. Breakfast discarded, train forgotten, conferences left in mid-air, and with a damn-all feeling for the responsibilities of the day in the face of the glorious news of his son's escape alive and whole from the great graveyard of France, old man Wainwright with the heart of a boy and the love of a father dashed upstairs to his ailing Wife, and shut the door. No one but she could share, or be permitted to see, his utter thankfulness. The chauffeur, with his eyes on his watch, sat waiting in the car. 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.