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Excerpt from John St. John: A Story of Missouri and Illinois A little girl looked timidly into the room as she pushed the door half open. A stream of sunlight entered with her and lay as a patch of yellow on the rich brown carpet, burnishing, as it swept by, the golden tresses of the child. 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.