Quotation from: The Valley of the Moon

Written by: Jack London

"Do I look as if they did? I was never so scared in my life.
Timothy McManus himself couldn't have caught me that day. But
what happened afterward? I heard they had a fearful roughhouse,
but I couldn't stop to see."

It was not until a quarter of an hour had passed, during which
Billy described the fight, that introductions took place. Mark
Hall was their visitor's name, and he lived in a bungalow among
the Carmel pines.