Excerpt from This House to Let Very early on a July morning in 1919 Constable Brown was on his beat in Kensington, in the immediate neighbourhood of Cathcart Square. Cathcart Square was an old-fashioned back water of this highly respectable suburb. It had not been built on' any regular lines. Small, narrow houses nestled comfortably by the side of What might be called mansions. At the entrance to the Square itself, a narrow-fronted milk-shop stood next door to a palatial resi dence. The dairy was Very old, and the Square, with its strange agglomeration of houses, had been built round it. Constable Brown, a tall, strapping young fellow, took his duties easily. He Was quite contented with his lot, and not thirsting for promotion, he had no overweening sense of his own abilities. He was friendly with all the cooks on his beat, and from them he received Very choice tit-bits. In his case, the policeman's lot was a fairly happy one. The morning was a Very bright one, a some what powerful summer sun had just risen, and flooded the streets with light. 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.