Excerpt from The St. Andrew's College Review: Easter, 1913 Red tied his pony to the ancient hitching - post, and with a feel ing almost of desecration, pushed aside the creaking portal. A pile of damp leaves lay upon the floor of the entrance-hall and some had blown into the huge and lofty drawing-room. In the fireplace were sodden ashes, the betrayed ghosts of some tramps' orgy. The explorer peered into the cellar, but a whiff of (lamp, noxious air drove him into the more cheerful hall. One by one be examined the rooms on the ground floor, then mounted the creaking stairs. A rat scurried across the boards and a spider's web trailed its silken mesh over his face. Nothing of particular interest claimed a perusal of the sunlit chambers, so he mounted a second flight of dustv steps and found several rooms of goodly size in the upper story. They were absolutely empty, with the exception of one. Which contained a tottering four-poster, to which clung fragments of faded green hangings. A sudden movement caused him to bang the door as he peered with suppressed excite ment at the rickety piece of furniture. On the uneven. Weather smirched mattress a black cat of immense size rolled in an ecstacy of sociability. Digging its claws into the ticking and twisting its handsome body in a series of bewildering contortions. 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.