Excerpt from Lakewood: A Story of to-Day A huge log fire was burning on the hearth of the Lakewood station. A short, thick-set man of cheerful aspect occupied a settee near the fire. His gaze was fixed on a window looking up the track. The train from New York was late. A motley array of vehicles made a semicircle around the station, which could have been mis taken for a stone church or a lodge, were it not for the wide platforms and the straight tracks run ning north and south. A foreign-looking woman in voluminous fur wraps strode up and down the front platform. Young men with canes and in fur caps were also outside in considerable force. Every one and every thing wore the delightful coming and going air marking a fashionable resort. 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.