Excerpt from Macmillan's Magazine, Vol. 9: November, 1863 April, 1864 WC will have dinner, though. If the boy likes his soup cold, let him have it so. And so they went to dinner. But no Erne. Claret and abuse of Lord John; then coffee and abuse of Sir Robert, but no Erne. They began to get uneasy. He has never gone out like this before, said Sir George. I must really make inquiries. But no one could answer them. Erne was not in his bedroom. His horse was in the stable. Even Mr. Compton got anxious. 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.