THE VALLEY OF THE MOON JACK LONDON BOOK 1 CHAPTER 14 ppt

... permitted to return, and with heads bent together, they talked in whispers. THE VALLEY OF THE MOON JACK LONDON BOOK 1 CHAPTER 3 They had dinner in the open-air, tree-walled dining-room, and ... kissed the palm of her hand and put his head closer to hers. The merry clatter of dishes was increasing as the dining-room filled up. Here and there voices were raised in snatches of song. There ... dining-room, and Saxon noted that it was Billy who paid the reckoning for the four. They knew many of the young men and women at the other tables, and greetings and fun flew back and forth....

... 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...

... VALLEY OF THE MOON JACK LONDON BOOK 1 CHAPTER 1 "You hear me, Saxon? Come on along. What if it is the Bricklayers? I'll have gentlemen friends there, and so'll you. The Al ... It was of solid mahogany. One end was cracked and dented from the capsize of the wagon in Rock Canyon. A bullet-hole, plugged, in the face of the top drawer, told of the fight with the Indians ... dragging her down the aisle. She drummed and shrieked the length of it. The door opened, and a vast, muffled roar of machinery burst in; and in the roar of it the drumming and the shrieking were...

... down there in a minute." THE VALLEY OF THE MOON JACK LONDON BOOK 1 CHAPTER 4 After dinner there were two dances in the pavilion, and then the band led the way to the race track for the ... over the ground and disappeared under the avalanche of battling forms of the onlookers. Leaving Saxon under the protection of the Irishman in an outer eddy of calm, Billy plunged back into the ... taking their positions along the rope. They kicked heel-holds in the soft earth, rubbed their hands with the soil from underfoot, and laughed and joked with the crowd that surged about them. The...

... "On the Banks of the Wabash." And he sang the song through, undeterred by the bedlam of two general fights, one on the adjacent platform, the other at the opposite end of the car, both of ... "When the Harvest Days Are Over." Bert and Mary joined in; but when Billy attempted to add his voice he was dissuaded by a shin-kick from Bert. Saxon THE VALLEY OF THE MOON JACK LONDON BOOK ... facing each other. When the aisles and platforms were packed by the hilarious crowd, the train pulled out for the short run from the suburbs into Oakland. All the car was singing a score of songs...

... murmured; the gate screeched under her hand; and she hurried along the narrow walk that led around to the corner of the house. "Wednesday," he celled softly. THE VALLEY OF THE MOON JACK ... sighed. And then, appalled at the length of all the poem, at the volume of the mystery, she rolled the manuscript and put it away. Again she dipped in the drawer, seeking the clue among the cherished ... face of the family and of community morality and demanded the divorce of Laura from her criminally weak husband; and who on the other hand, had held the branches of the family together when...

... know. The blood ebbed from her face with the apprehension and fear his appearance caused. She was afraid of the rough bulk of the man; of the heavy brown eyes, dominant and confident; of the ... that he hurt none of the other fellows' feelings in the way the girls hurt hers. They all but asked him outright to dance with them, and little of their open pursuit of him escaped her ... itself, but the quality of it and the misuse of it, that affronted her. The beating he had given the gentle Mr. Moody had meant half-hours of horror to her afterward. Always did the memory of it...

... pause. THE VALLEY OF THE MOON JACK LONDON BOOK 1 CHAPTER 8 The music stopped at the end of the waltz, leaving Billy and Saxon at the big entrance doorway of the ballroom. Her hand rested ... you are the master of other men," she said softly, aware herself of pride in the strength and skill of him. "It does," he admitted frankly. "I'm glad I went into the game ... out in the hills?" She did not answer immediately, and for the moment she was seeing the nightmare vision of her last buggy-ride; of her fear and her leap from the buggy; and of the long...

... stop, while the faces of the occupants took new lease of interest of life and stared at the young man and woman in the light rig that barred the way. Billy held up his hand. "Take the outside, ... said to the chauffeur. "Nothin' doin', kiddo," came the answer, as the chauffeur measured with hard, wise eyes the crumbling edge of the road and the downfall of the outside ... than before them rotten He slightly slacked the reins on the restless, head-tossing animals, and without need of chirrup they took the weight of the light vehicle and passed up the hill and...