Excerpt from The Fright, Vol. 1 of 3 The cloth had been removed, the dessert 'placed, the fire stirred, and the butler had left the apartment more than five minutes, yet not one word had been spoken by either of the two gentlemen who sat at opposite ends of the table, placed with mathematical exactitude in the centre of the large dining room at Rolleston Court. He who sat at the lower. 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.