Excerpt from The Windsor Magazine, Vol. 1: January to June, 1895 It's really the most extraordinary affair I ever had to do with, he remarked to the placid face of the clock above mentioned. And I've been in the business just three and-thirty years at eleven a.m. Next Monday morning. I only hope I've done right, that's all. As he spoke the chief bookkeeper, who had the treble advantage of being tall, pretty, and just eight-and-twenty years of age, entered the room. She noticed the open letter and the look upon her ch1ef's face, and her curiosity was proportionately excited. 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.