Excerpt from Dust Before the Wind, Vol. 1 of 2: A Novel Con But that is just the gist of the matter. It did so happen. Why suppress all that is extraordinary in daily existence? If, on the contrary, we note it carefully, as doctors and other scientific men do facts that come under their observation, we shall get nearer what we infants in the night are crying for - the Light of Truth. Pro (sarcastically): Perhaps you would like a fact I can vouch for also, as being strictly true. It is a recent Irish story. Two young fellows who were moonlighters suspected a boy of informing upon them. So they asked him to come out for a walk one evening and murdered him in a lonely valley, where two roads met. A year or so later their father was thrown from his gig, driving by that same spot, and killed. When the old priest heard of it - probably knowing the previous story through the confessional - he raised his hands, exclaiming The ways of God are wonderful! 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.