Excerpt from The City of Refuge, Vol. 2 of 3 It was a sizzling hot day in June the out lines of things quivered in the heat; the electric cars ran clicking noisily up and down, looking like red-hot furnaces for the accommodation of the wicked; if any man chose to walk on the sunny Side it was equivalent to committing suicide - the coroner's inquest would certainly bring in that verdict; the broad Shady hall of the hotel was filled with citizens sitting about and transacting business they all drank iced. 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.