Excerpt from A Game of Chance, Vol. 1 of 3: A Novel And it was not such a wonderful or un common event after all only sons go to India every day and take their chance with the rest, and young John was not such a paragon that his absence would make a blank, or his. Presence cause a sensation. But the fact was, he was the first Erskine who had become a soldier since the Erskine who fought and -died at Bannockburn, and his choice of a profes sion had been canvassed, and talked over, and wondered at, long after the Slight surprise It caused to his family and friends had died out. 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.