Excerpt from The American<br><br>It was a quiet hour at the settlement. Not a sound disturbed the writer in one room or the reader in the other until a burly policeman came puffing and panting up the entrance steps and stopped at the office door. At the first sound of the sergeant 's heavy tread Miss Seymour had glanced involuntarily, with an anxious frown, toward the library; and though she could not see the reader in the bay-window, there had come, also at that first sound, a quick call All right, Miss Sey mour,' and the reader had vanished.<br><br>Miss Seymour turned to greet her visitor with a bright smile and a pleasant, Good-morning, Sergeant.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.