Quotation from: The Valley of the Moon

Written by: Jack London

"Some of it was printed."

"What was her name?" he asked idly.

"Dayelle Wiley Brown. She wrote: 'The Viking's Quest';
'Days of Gold'; 'Constancy'; 'The Caballero'; 'Graves at
Little Meadow'; and a lot more. Ten of them are in 'The
Story of the Files.'"

"I've the book at home," he remarked, for the first time showing
real interest. "She was a pioneer, of course--before my time.
I'll look her up when I get back to the house. My people were
pioneers. They came by Panama, in the Fifties, from Long Island.
My father was a doctor, but he went into business in San
Francisco and robbed his fellow men out of enough to keep me and
the rest of a large family going ever since.--Say, where are you
and your husband bound?"