Excerpt from The Parting of the Ways: A Drama in Four Acts The splendid Offices of john rodman company, Wall Street, New York. The room shown is the main reception room, to which everybody of im portance is admitted. It is entered at Back Centre by two double glazed doors, upon which the name John Rodman (e Co., Bankers, appears in gold let ters. Beyond these double glazed doors are other glazed partitions, showing other ofiices. On right and left of reception room are offices separated by glazed partitions, which are entered by single glazed doors. The ofice right discloses clerks at their desks, but the room left is shut off from view by a handsome damask curtain. The furniture and other fixtures of the reception room are of the sumptuous order now used by large corporations. 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.