The Library of America • Story of the Week Reprinted from Jack London: Novels & Stories

(The Library of America, 1982), pages 298–307. First appeared in the February 1899 issue of Overland Monthly and

reprinted in the collection The Son of the Wolf (1900).

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JACK L ONDON