Excerpt from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 175: January-June, 1904 At the gateway two cab lamps showed through the mist Of shifting fog like the eyes Of a great cat, and the familiar Hansom, sir? Came to him indistinctly. He paused by force Of cus tom and, stepping forward, had almost touched the open door when a new impulse caused him to draw back. 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.