Excerpt from Towards Morning<br><br>It was nothing but the stove after all. He remem bered now that he had gone to sleep staring at the fire glowing fiercely behind the glass covered door. He had sat too close - far too close - and the heat had given him nightmare. Now the fire was almost out. It had a sullen, dying look and the atmosphere of the room was dank and stuffy.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.