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Excerpt from A Wilderness Cry the Story of a Great Sacrifice Who's sick? He asked. It's Delia, sir, replied the maid With strange embarrassment. Oh, very well. Is Mrs. Atwater here? Yes, she's up in her 'sitting-room. He said no more, but passed on to the room that he called absolutely his own, the room that he allowed no one to put in order. It was a Wilderness of papers, reports, books, letters, piled in heaps on shelves, window-seat and desk. Everything was handy, he said, and that he knew just where to find it. Somehow he did manage to bring forth what he wanted after a reasonable amount of search. Pulling some legal document out of his pocket, Atwater sat down in a comfortable chair where the light fell on his well-lined f ace. His hair was thin and iron gray; his mustache hid the firm lines about his mouth, but across his forehead the impress of years was Visible; his eyes were keen and kindly, set under shaggy brows; his form was still erect in spite of his sixty-f our years. 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.