Excerpt from The Last Invasion Shivering a little in the wind, Tom stood and watched, counting the changes. As he turned to go back into the house he glanced over his shoulder. The light had swung his way again, and the horse-block and hitching post were not alone Right in front Of them, clearly outlined, was a man on horseback. Tom had just time to notice that the horse stood with hanging head, and that the rider wore a queer head -gear, when the shadowy picture disappeared in blackness. It took Tom very few seconds to get from the windy porch to the warm sitting-room, where his father and mother sat on opposite sides of the big table. There's a funny-looking man sitting on a horse in front of the house, he announced. 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.