Excerpt from The Chronicles of Waltham, Vol. 2 of 3 Nothing occurred, however, to alarm him. Once or twice, indeed, the shout of a drunken man, and the tread of persons traversing the road in front of the house, roused him, and he grasped his gun, without a pulse beating the quicker for the movement. But the sounds died away without giving place to others, and his vigilance gradually relaxed. At last he fell asleep in his chair, and woke again only when the stir of his people made him look up, that he might see everything, both within and without, in the very same order in which he had left it over-night. 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.