Excerpt from Acta Victoriana, Vol. 42: January, 1918 It is these people that Joe defends in the law courts, and he is rewarded by their undying devotion. But his only intimate friend is his mongrel dog whom he calls Respectability, for long, and Spec for short. Two years of despair engendered by this wretched existence leads Joe Louden to the verge of dissipation. 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.