Excerpt from A Secret of the Sea, Vol. 3 of 3: A Novel At the last moment, however, the baronet and Gerald started for London alone. Late on Friday, Lady Dudgeon received a tele gram. Her only sister was very ill, and it was needful that she should hurry off without an hour's delay. Considering all that I have done for Caroline, it is really very ungrateful of her to be ill at a time like this, she grumbled to her husband. She knew how anxious I was to get back to town, and She might have doctored herself up for another month or two. I hope to goodness she won't die till the season is over. I can't bear myself in mourning. 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.