Excerpt from The Man From Nowhere T the gate I turned an instant and A looked back, and there still stood 1 my wife in her faded print dress, Rob beside her, barefooted and ragged, and Ellie in her shabby little shoes. Even as I stood there looking, I felt a sharp, quick throb of pain, like a presage of the future, and something warned me that memory had received the picture, to fling it back, barbed with anguish, in years to come. 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.