Excerpt from In David's Town The star that, to complete the picture, should have been hovering over the village, was not there; the hot sun instead was blazing down upon it. A mosque stood in the foreground, be yond which was a convent, surmounted by a cross. Thither the traveller turned his steps. As he appeared he heard the pealing of an organ and voices chanting Ave, M aria; 0m pro nobis 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.