Excerpt from The Golden Chain Presently he began the descent of the steep trail. It was almost dark-the clear darkness of southwestern nights, like the depths of a cold, still water pool. And among the pines, when he reached them, the road showed only as a streak of vaguely luminous grey. The pony broke into a long gallop, its unshod hoofs making hardly more than a pat ter on the pounded gravel. They came to a creek crossing, where the water trickled shallow over the stones, splashed through and went up the slight slope at the farther side. Then a dog barked, the sharp, shrill yap of a cur, and 'a light shone from back among the trunks and branches of the trees. 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.