Download or read book The Twenty-First Burr (Classic Reprint) written by Victor Lauriston and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-18 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Twenty-First Burr Our lives are mostly desert wastes of petty things. Yet here and there in a wide expanse of Nothing Doing stands out one day, an oasis of huge event, whose miraged memory we mark in red - yes, or in black. Such a day, vivid, outstanding, unforgettable, Laura Winright knew when she again met George Annisford after two years' absence. She had just returned from Europe, called home by her father's letter. Annisford, she knew, would meet her at New York. He did not. That was the first shock which startled Laura Winright into stark attention. Her father, then, must be even worse than his last letter had intimated. That was the one conclusion she could draw from her fiance's default. With characteristic impetuosity she straightway used the long distance telephone to reach Annisford at Detroit. Then, being a normal woman, she forgot to ask most of the questions that had fluttered excitedly in her mind. "Oh, see here, chick!" protested Annisford jestingly across six hundred miles of wire. "You've come down on us like the wolf on the fold. 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.