Excerpt from The Girl From Four Corners a Romance of California to-DayIT was five o'clock on Sunday afternoon. Margaret Garrison, standing by the library window, watched her uncle and aunt and cousin Edith start away for the usual Sunday evening supper at the Peytons'. She even managed a smile and a wave of her hand, and then as the trio vanished around the corner her face settled into the hard, tense lines that it had worn all that crucial day.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.