Excerpt from The Chronicles of Quincy Adams Sawyer, Detective To the younger Quincy Adams Sawyer, however, the loss of his father's fortune, which had always been his to command, was a matter of minor im portance. As the father had lived with the main idea of seeing strange sights and meeting new peo ple, so, likewise, did the son find that strange adven tures and unexpected experiences were to him as the breath Of life. Nor did this fact force itself on him at the time of his father's death, it having been well founded long previous to that event, for the younger Quincy had led a constantly changing existence since his earliest youth. 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.