Excerpt from And Then Came the Storm We corresponded for some time and I was the means of procuring for him a number of scarce items he prized very highly. One day I received a letter from him saying that his daughter was on her way to Boston to visit the family of an old college-mate of his, and asked if I would kindly look her up and show her some of the "interesting sights of the cultural metropolis." I thought to myself, this is probably some bespectacled, bookish dame, but seeing it was about Christmas-time, when she would be away from the holiday festivities at home, I didn't want to be accused of being a cold-footed, inhospitable Bostonian, so I decided to phone, ask her to lunch with me and give her the "once-over." When she answered the call I told her of her father's letter and invited her to meet me in the library at the Hotel Touraine. "Just a moment, please," she said, then after a pause of a minute or so, she answered, "Yes, thank you, I shall be happy to meet you." "Thank you," I said, "if you are as charming as your cheery musical voice, our happiness will be mutual." 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.