Wolf House would have 26 rooms and 9 fireplaces, a reflecting pool, a fireproof vault for Jack's manuscripts, a magnificent library and a tower where he could sleep.

"Do you know I have the fatal faculty of making friends, and lack the blessed trait of being able to quarrel with them. And they are constantly turning up. My home is the mecca of every returned Klondiker, sailor, or soldier of fortune I ever met. Some day I shall build an establishment, invite them all, and turn them loose upon each other. Such a mingling of castes and creeds and characters could not be duplicated. The destruction would be great."