Download or read book Whispers (Classic Reprint) written by Louis Dodge and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-12 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Whispers The small back room of the shop was so still that the ticking of the clock on the wall - a small, quick-spoken thing of nickel - was like the sounding of an alarm, or an agitated voice uttering a warning. A tedious sound by day, made little by the rumble of traffic on the street, it now possessed a quality at once sinister and urgent. The street was deserted. The shops were closed and dark save for the night-lamps which burned dimly in the mean little temples of trade along the thoroughfare. Half an hour ago a policeman had passed along the pavement, peering through the grimy windows, trying the doors. He had made sure that no one was stirring. Later, far down the street, his stick on the pavement had shattered the stillness of the night. In the back room where the clock ticked a man sat alone. 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.