The Hiding-Places

Excerpt from The Hiding-Places: A Novel "Why, Binney!" cried Gertrude, "what is the matter?" She and Margery and I had been sitting on the wide stone wall that runs above the South Farm's lower mowing. It is a very old wall, with its original central portion buttressed and widened by the stone ploughed out of the adjoining fields. Sitting on one side of it, with the girls on the other, while we were chatting I had carelessly pried up a broad flat stone that lay in the middle, between us three. Then, almost grown man as I was, my heart began to beat wildly, I panted for breath, and I felt my eyes straining at my find. For there, in a little cavity carefully made beneath the stone, lay the Flat Oblong Box. It could be nothing else. The Thick Oblong had been found in 1839, the Flat Oval in '47, the Flat Round in '54. There were left the Cubical, the Thick Oval, the Flat Oblong - and beyond a doubt I had found the latter. It was flat, scarcely more than an inch in thickness. It was oblong, about four inches by eight. 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.