Excerpt from The Light Above the Cross Roads Sir Henry saw himself tied by a thousand chains to the very greatness of his position, tied to a wife with whom it might be a dreary tragedy, yet precluded by the unwritten law of his order from taking any short cut to freedom from her presence in his house, tied to the very chair he sat on, and obliged to entertain stran gers without the slightest hope of finding among his guests that unexpected angel sent to encourage the hearts of the hospitable. Still, he knew himself to be successful, and there was some essence of joy in that knowledge. Had he stood alone he might even have been happy, but his ambition and his pride would not permit him to stand alone and push the woman he had married entirely out of his life. She was always there. 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.