Author: Mrs. Humphry Ward

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-12

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9781331251774

Excerpt from Helbeck of Bannisdale, Vol. 2 of 2 "Look out there! For God's sake, go to your places!" The cry of the foreman reached the ears of the clinging women. They fell apart - each peering into the crowd and the tumult. Mounted on a block of wood about a dozen yards from them - waving his arm and shouting to the stream of panic-stricken workmen - they saw the man who had been their guide through the works. Four white-hot ingots, just uncovered, blazed deserted on their truck close to him, and a multitude of men and boys were pushing past them, tumbling over each other in their eagerness to reach the neighbourhood of the furnace. The space between the ingots and some machinery near them was perilously narrow. At any moment, those rushing past might have been pushed against the death-bearing truck. Ah! another cry. A man's coat-sleeve has caught fire. 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.