Excerpt from The Rain-Coat Girl The child raced home through the storm, her head bent and her short swift legs flying fast. TO the south great thunder-heads formed, and a gray-green sky shut out the light. The down bent face glowed with the joy Of the race. Tingling forces were about her, and she tossed her head a little, throwing back the escaped lock that teased her eyes like a pony' s forelock. She was not um like a young colt racing through the storm with her short swaying body and the stout little legs spud ding along. Her breath grew quick. Her heart drummed to the rhythm of her flying feet, and the first drops Of the storm spirted and stung at her. A long slanting gust whirled by, drenching her head and shoulders, and she ducked to it and tossed back the lock from her eyes. She was almost home - two more fields, then down the hill and into the side street! A glare lit up the sky and crashed the world about her. She lifted a startled face., Over the top Of the hedge beside her she saw the windows of the great house on the hill lighted up and a woman's white face peering out. Then the gray-green mist shut down. The hedge beside her was brilliant with wet, the gutter ran brown. She shook the drops from her hair and sped on. An Opening broke the hedge, and between the greenness a wide straight driveway led to the house. At the end Of the drive a woman was coming swiftly down the steps of the house. 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.