Excerpt from The Years of the Locust He had hammered a fortune out of the Board of Trade, and some of the uses of that fortune had turned him into a hog. The stodgy cunning that had taught him to make money, also taught him to add to it. At fifty, he was perhaps sixth in rank. 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.