Excerpt from A Circle in the Sand The office boy stood beside David Temple's desk, a slip of paper on which a name was written in his hand. He knew better than to interrupt the editor when his pen was racing in that aggressive way, so he stood rumpling the bit of pink paper with grimy fingers while speculatively regarding a fly running unmeaning races from a cloudy map of the United States to the big ink bottle occupying the centre of a very untidy desk. The day was breathless and humid. From the earliest hours the sun's rays had swept the streets like destroying glances from a malevolent eye. 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.

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