Excerpt from The Right of the Strongest Whether to take the big road that wound round the knob or the much shorter footpath across the hill was the question. Mary Elizabeth stood at the parting of the ways and pondered. Each route had its drawbacks. The longer and more frequented way had late arrival and a sharp scolding at the end, while the path that would take her home in time for supper led up the steep hill by the ha'nted house and down again through the dark - green twi light of the pine forest beyond. 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.