Excerpt from The Heart's Justice As the opulent roadster condescended through the outskirts of the town his mind was occupied with such practical speculations as the cost of paving, lighting, ex tending the sewer system. It is doubtful if he could have gone to Heaven without a try for the civic improve ment of the Golden City. Occasionally the sun got in his way. But presently he came to the house of David Harlow, recognizable from the description he had received of it. David Harlow occupied what was al most a pension position in the Ship and Engine Fae tory of which Sterling was the manager, and rumor laughed resentfully at his pose of a lonely aristocrat. Him an' his daughter, they think they're God! Was the current sneer. Rumor said he had tinkered that was always the word to carry a cargo of ridicule in its hold - he had tinkered away at some invention or other for fifteen odd years. And one last damna tory thing they found to say of him; they said with blasting charity that he was harmless. 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.