Excerpt from Lastchance Junction, Far, Far West: A Novel The Colonel promptly levelled his cane in ah other direction, where, in the most conspicuous part of the structure, Mrs. Colonel Magnus Bloomer seemed to draw all the afternoon rays to herself and then to scintillate them forth again. She was large, handsome, florid, and she was set in a frame of inexhaustible brilliancy. Some young girls, of a like tropical luxuriance of color, surrounded her, and these were sur rounded by a group of young men, brave with vivid neck-scarfs and bright jewels, and whose tail silk hats seemed to hold the same precari ous tenure on prosperity and social eminence as that indicated by the Colonel's own. As he gazed, however, the Colonel entirely recovered his self-complacency. 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.