Excerpt from Letters to a DjinnBut, Hinbad, remark that just after the name of the Thompsons the finger of fate - for I can not believe it to have been the mere finger of a secretary - traced in my own humble name. Who, you ask, would invite the social secretary, the poor relative, of the Panama Commissioner's wife to a ball at Government House? Obviously, no one. But there it was, in black on white.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.