Excerpt from God's Fool, Vol. 1 of 2: A Koopstad Story And he sank out of sight into the mist, his whistle alone lingering a few seconds longer. Another quarter of an hour crept by. The darkness grew denser. And presently the clock of the big church tower - away down in the town - boomed forth the hour of eight. Its echoes crept along the dreary silence, and lay faint upon the air. The chimes which must have prefaced those final strokes had got lost in the mazes of the mist. Just before the striking of the hour the front-door had suddenly opened, and a man had come running out, and away into the fog. 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.