Excerpt from Miss. 318 and Mr. 37 Against the onslaught of these Amazons, bent on loot and pillage, everybody in the Mammoth was making ready, from buyers' assistants and transfer men to packers, bin-boys, and drivers and the stokers in the boiler rooms. Lisette Mooney's somewhat youthless hands were condensing the stock that had been dumped on her counter. They fluttered about the chaos of silken things darting here and there like humming-birds among flowers. She was making her wares as alluring as possible and as get-atable for once the enemy arrived, the action must be brisk. 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.