Excerpt from Real Life: Into Which Miss. Leda Swan of Hollywood Makes an Adventurous Excursion With an expertness summoned from her forgot ten past by the agony of need, the Princess acted. She sprang upon the young man - a diving tackle brilliantly timed and executed. They went down together. They slid as one mass in the thin coating of slime which a passing shower had surfaced the alley with, and wedged against the farther curb. The great double-treaded wheel went by, missing them by a hand's breadth. The next few minutes had for her the quality of one of those restless dreams wherein one does ludicrous things in the deadliest frantic earnest; packs useless and untransportable objects into a dis proportionate trunk for a preposterous railway journey, is obliged to sally forth, because the time is so short, clad in nothing but a night-dress and two left gloves, looks vainly for a taxi in the crowded staring street and catches, faute de mieux, a passing hearse - that sort of dream. 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.