Excerpt from Colonel Carter of Cartersville The dinner was at the colonel's an Old-fashioned, partly furnished, two-story house nearly a century Old which crouches down behind a larger and more modern dwelling fronting on Bedford Place within a stone's throw of the tall clo'ck tower of Jefferson Market. The street entrance to this curious abode is marked by a swinging wooden gate Opening into a narrow tunnel which dodges under the front house. It is an uncanny sort Of passageway, mouldy and wet from a long-neglected leak overhead, and is lighted at night by a rusty lantern with dingy glass Sides. 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.