Excerpt from The Yellow Ticket: And Other Stories One night in the early winter of 1912 a young girl was among them, warmly but dowdily dressed, like a well to-do provincial yet she scanned the passers-by as the professionals scan them, and walked slowly as they walk, though it was no time for loitering. The winter had set in early. And already in November the air was keen with frost, and the stars glittered like diamonds. A young man came hurrying by: as he passed he caught sight of the girl's profile and eyes as she lingered before a shop window. He stopped at once and went over to her. 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.