Excerpt from The Day After DarkLess than an hour after Tristram had returned to Villa Mirador, there met round a green table in a gilded room of the castle overlooking the clustered little city by the river, six grave graybeards. They were serene from long life and unquestioned power, they were very wise, they never hurried, for years and years they had taken a share in embroiling or composing the affairs of a world. But on this fateful morning, there was not one of these sages but felt himself exceedingly disturbed for no better reason than that a certain young gentleman had neither slept in his bed, nor appeared at the ritual hour for break fast.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.