Excerpt from The Light That Lies He had been obliged to miss two weddings, a private-car jaunt to Aiken, one of the Har vard-yale football matches, the docking of the Olympic when she carried at least one precious passenger, the sailing of the Cedric when she carried an equally precious but more exacting object of interest, a chance to meet the Princess Pat, and a lot of other things that he wouldn't have missed for anything in the world not withstanding the fact that he couldn't remem ber, off hand, just what they were. Suffice it to say, this miserable business of getting Off juries kept Sampson so occupied that he found it extremely difficult to get on with anything else. He was above trying to fix any one. Other men, he knew, had some one downtown who could get them Off with a word to the proper person, and others were of sufficient importance politically to make it impossible for them to be in contempt of court. That's what he called fixing things. 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.