Excerpt from The Scarred Chin He said it at a meeting of the directors of the Dins more Company, of which he was president and chief stockholder; and from that trivial ebullition of ill temper unfolded a series of events which affected his life more profoundly than any calculated decision ever had. North of the river, in Chicago, stand two immense structures of dun pressed brick, each covering a large irregular city block. They are of about the same size and exactly alike in architecture. A street separates them, but enclosed passage ways, running above the street at the several stories, connect them like the liga ments of the Siamese twins. Their uniform dun bulk, arising from a swarm of small, dingy buildings, give the impression of a great, mediaeval castle dominating a cluttered, ragged city. The roof of each building sup ports an enormous electrical sign, The Dinsmore Company, whose glow reaches many miles out into the lake at night. 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.