Excerpt from The Third DegreeThe animal, a well cared for specimen of the genus fox-terrier, was awake and fully alive to the fact that the temperature was gradually changing, yet he pre ferred to wait and let the shadow cover him rather than move an inch outside its limits. He was the personification of the pace that does not kill.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.