Excerpt from Sir Jasper's Tenant, Vol. 1 of 3 The secluded habitation was known as the Hermitage, which romantic title had been given to it by some sentimental occupant in days gone by. There was a story connected with it, a tra gical story, such as generally belongs to a place of this kind: the story of a faithless wife, a mid night meeting, a servant's treachery, and a sur prise - a shrieking woman locked in an inner chamber, and watching through a keyhole - a duel to the death, and then a flight on horseback through the black W'oods away to the open coun try, and the miry roads leading London-wards an inquest at the Hermitage-ma suicide found stark and stiff in a London lodging-house - and. 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.