Quotation from: The Valley of the Moon

Written by: Jack London

"Oh, Saxon!" Mary sobbed; and was gone.

In the house, the lamp lighted, Saxon looked at the coin. It was
a five-dollar piece--to her, a fortune. Then she thought of Mary,
and of the man of whom she was afraid. Saxon registered another
black mark against Oakland. Mary was one more destroyed. They
lived only five years, on the average, Saxon had heard somewhere.
She looked at the coin and tossed it into the kitchen sink. When
she cleaned the clams, she heard the coin tinkle down the vent
pipe.