Excerpt from Peter Sanders, Retired What was the thing to do Evidently the house must be closed. Quite as surely he mustn't hope to carry on his business there or elsewhere for the present. The district attorney could not last forever. One term would be the limit of his power of molestation, whether he went up or down on the wheel of politics; and his successor could be dealt with according to his kind. Very well, then. The game would be to keep the house ostentatiously closed after its owner's quite unostentatious departure from town. The house was well, if not favorably, known; it would stand in mute protest against the law's interference with liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Mr. Sanders had no wish to sell his home, and he could not very well manage about his books if he did dispose of it. He would go, but the house should stay. Let the district attorney get what satisfaction he could from its closed shutters. It would be a perpetual menace, a reminder that Peter Sanders was always watching his chance to come 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.