Excerpt from The First ClaimIt was not an hour at which Dawson approved of interruptions, and Valerie was in truth horribly afraid of Dawson, but the baby had been crying steadily for nearly ten minutes, and it was not easy to go downstairs without finding out what was the matter.Valerie had often come up at intervals of a quarter of an hour during the better part of an afternoon to make sure that the crying was quieted, but this afternoon people were coming to lunch and she would not be able to get away.So she gathered her courage and opened the door very gently and looked in.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.