Excerpt from The Ward of the Crown, Vol. 2 of 3: A Historical Novel In the name of the saints what has happened exclaimed the trembling house keeper. Nothing yet, but there is much to dread he returned, and there is no time to be lost. So leave me to push in that bolt, and hasten to tell your mistress I must see her immediately. The old woman, with many exclamations of astonishment, obeyed this command, and Hubert and Conyers proceeded, during her absence, to examine by the light of a lantern, the door by which Miles Forrest proposed to enter the building. 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.