Excerpt from Across the Barrier: A Record of True Experiences ON July 31, 191 I, a little girl aged seven years and eleven months, called Mary Helen Monica Giuseppina, passed out of this life, after an illness of seventeen days. She was clearly loved, not only by her parents and little sister, but by all who came into contact with her. 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.