Excerpt from Fifty Thousand Dollars Ransom: A Novel John granger was in sore trouble of mind - a trouble so deep that when he tried to speak of it to the wife of his bosom, the mere idea seemed to give added substance to his fears and so he was Silent. No, he said to himself, there are some things one cannot tell even to one's wife, and with this sad conclusion and with a heavy Sigh he turned on his Side in his bed, away from his soundly-sleep ing and unsuspecting spouse, lest in his Sleep her pretty Shell-like ears nestling under great coils of glossy black hair should steal his terrible secret from him. 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.