Excerpt from The Enchanted Hat I glanced about. The cafe was crowded, as it usually is at this hour. Here and there I caught glimpses of celebrities and familiar faces: journal ists, musicians, authors, artists and act ors; This is the time they drop in to be pointed out to strangers from out of town. It's a capital advertisement. To night, however, none of these interested me in the slightest degree; rather, their animated countenances angered me. How could they laugh and look happy! 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.