Excerpt from Amedee's Son As for La Rose's story, it matters little, I suppose, whether any one believes it or not. In Port l'Eveque the general opinion - perfectly safe, for that matter - was that there might be something in it. A white bird had flown through the open door into the room, she said. Well, why might that not have been some white gull or a heron, bewildered by the storm, and flying blindly at the light of poor Mathilde's candle? Still, it did seem strange that just at that moment, if reports were to be trusted, Amedee Fougere was out there on the sea, off Sable Island, going down on the brigantine Sept Etoiles, in the most terrific gale of ten years. 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."