Excerpt from The Three Spaniards, Vol. 2 of 2: A Romance He stood a moment gazing upon me with the malice ofa fiend; when drawing from his cloak a letter sealed with black, I looked upon the signet, and found it my father's seal. I started in confu sion at the sight; I gazed upon the writing and recollected the traces of his hand. My impatience rnd amazement were too great for me to notice, and taking advantage of my absence of mind, this strange messenger had departed; and when I again looked up, he seemed to me to have vanished. The letter was written with my father's hand, and commanded me not to undertake the journey I had meditated, but to hasten instantly to the house on the banks of the Tagus, and wait his permission for my departure. I caused the gardens to be searched when I recovered from my first surprise: but no person was to he found, and, at this mo went I cannot conjecture what or who is this mee senger. 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.