Excerpt from Red Diamonds, Vol. 3 of 3Quite so, ' said Hiram, quite so.' Then his mind went back to the original problem. He blew a great cloud of smoke out in front of him, watched it vanish in feathery films up the wall, and then, looking at Lydia this time, he asked, What sort of man may this Bos tock happen to be?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.