Excerpt from The Time Lock By and by a club attendant did appear. His manner was contrastingly alert and industrious. Suspended from one arm was the coiled tube of a vacuum sweeper; the other hand carried a large dust-cloth. Quite abruptly his eye hap pened to alight upon the unmoving figure over by the Window, and he halted and stared, at first inquiringly, but at once an expression of stupid amazement overspread his face. 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.