... came the admiring cheer of the neighborhood children, and Saxon, with a sigh of content, knew that the happy day had at last begun. THE VALLEY OF THE MOON JACK LONDON BOOK 1 CHAPTER ... effect. Still on the chair, all in the moment of quick clear-seeing, she drew the skirt tightly back and raised it. The sight was good to her, nor did she under-appraise the lines of the slender ... assuming the calm she did not possess, but which she must impart to the screaming bedlamite upon the floor. The light frame house leaked the noise hideously, and Saxon knew that the houses on either...