The End of the Game

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Excerpt from The End of the Game: A Novel Help! help!" A woman's shrill cry of distress suddenly broke the peaceful stillness of the vivid green woods and resounded in strident, vibrating notes through the brambled lanes and shaded glens. The startled birds ceased singing in the trees and a frightened rabbit dashed helter-skelter to cover under the ragged hedge fringing the narrow dusty road, which, like a long, undulating ribbon, curved in and out among the rows of noble oaks and stretches of open farming land that lay between this picturesque wilderness and the good city of Boston. "Help! help! help!" came the cry again, this time in crescendo notes of terror, as if the peril momentarily grew more terrifying. Shriek followed shriek, like waves of agonized sound, which surged up and gradually spent themselves in the distance, only to be sent back mockingly by the far-off blue hills. The danger was pressing, that was evident. 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.