Excerpt from Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies, or the Missing Pearl Necklace The steady turning of the grinding-stones set the Old Red Mill a-quiver in every board and beam. The air within was full of dust - dust of the grain, and fine, fine dust from the stones themselves. Uncle Jabez Potter, the miller, came to the door and looked across the grassy yard that sepa rated the mill and the farmhouse attached, from the highroad. Under a broad-spreading tree sat two girls, busy With their needles. One, a sharp-faced, light-haired girl, who some how carried a look of endured pain in her eyes in spite of the smile she flung at the old man, cried. 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.