Excerpt from The Mount Marunga Mystery Bound up with this history are certain personal details connected with my wooing of Mabel Tracey; but, as they have a direct bearing upon subsequent events, I make no apology for including them in my story. Two persons in the throes of the tender passion described by Dryden as the noblest frailty of the mind, have formed the subject of a million stories. 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.