Excerpt from The Eagle's FeatherBut farther back from the street, near the wall of ivy that formed a screen between the Cafe Royal and the Yellow Boar, was a group of five men, to whom the reader ought, by all the rules of story-telling, to have been intro duced without meandering from table to table by the way.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.