Excerpt from Up and Down the Sands of Gold El Caney, and the days that followed, with all their sickening horrors, seemed strange to remember as actualities in the face of this summer day of rest fulness by the same sea that knew Cuba's far-off shore. And he was glad to think of them as parts of a dream from which he had awakened none too soon. Upon the next headland down shore was a curious looking building, very small and brown, - brown as an autumn leaf, and quite as guiltless Of paint. The door opening toward the street was always closed during the summer; and over it, securely nailed, sign-like, was something calculated to awaken wonder in the mind of an inquisitive visitor. It was a long, narrow strip Of board, upon which the once red paint had been weather-beaten to a dull brown; and the faded lettering, in black' and white, read Betsey Brett. 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.