Excerpt from The Eagle Bound: A Drama, in Two ScenesIt is late at night. Outside, a tropical storm is raging and through two windows at back are seen great intermittent flashes of lightning made more ghastly by the moan ing of winds and followed by rolling thun der.The room is feebly lighted by two lamps, one distinguished on a mantel above a fire place to the right, and the other on a table near the center of the room.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.