Excerpt from The Man She Cared For, Vol. 1 of 3 Three days had passed since poor humanity had run into minerals and got the worst of it, and it seemed to concern nobody that a man sick, and Shaken unto death should be lying like a log at the White Swan. The landlord was not nervous about him; there were a gold watch and chain worth fifty pounds, that would defray all expenses, funeral and otherwise and heaven and the jewellers only knew the value of the diamond pin which, Shimmering still in its black satin stock, rested in the left hand top drawer of the wainscot chest in the best bed-room. The landlord had turned the key upon it for precau tion's sake, and everybody had forgotten it save that worthy gentleman. 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.