Excerpt from Leo: A Novel, Vol. 1 of 3 On a certain black door on the first-floor land ing of one of the houses in Sun-dial Buildings two names were inscribed in thick white paint. It was quite necessary that they should be marked with some distinctness, for the staircase was very dark, and visitors had to grope their way, poring over the names they were in quest of, as travellers at night strain their eyes to read finger posts. By making out each letter separately - perhaps by feeling them after the manner of blind people reading their embossed books - the words finally deciphered were, Mr A. Page and under neath, Mr. R. Hooper. 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.