This is Volume III of Jack London's Collective Short Stories, including Two Gold Bricks and Moon-Face. Most people love social events. However, they are easy to be cheated at a soiree which consumes their energy and time and also of course—money. Two Gold Bricks tells a story of how Damon and Ollie cheat people of their money by taking advantage of their social obsessions. Moon-Face is told by a psychopathic narrator, who hates a man with a moon-face, named John Claverhouse. John Claverhouse makes him feel extremely uncomfortable, so he tries every means to get Claverhouse in trouble, but only to find that the moon-face is always smiling. Later, he presents as a gift a well-trained dog named Bellona to Claverhouse. An accident happened when the dog carried back the explosive which was supposed to be used in the fishing pod. Claverhouse was killed, and the psychopathic narrator is very proud of his "unexpected" murder.

社交场合是很多名人都相当热衷的，但是一些社交晚会往往会使那些热衷于社交的人们受到欺骗；不仅是精力和时间的浪费，金钱当然也不例外。戴蒙和奥利就是两个利用人们热爱社交的心理来骗取钱财的人。《圆脸》的叙述者是一个心理变态者。他对一个有着圆月般脸庞的男人有一种天然的憎恶。他想尽办法给他制造麻烦，半夜把他的牛赶到田地、毒死他的狗、烧毁他的粮食、给他抵押贷款害得他失掉房子......但是这个男人仍然不改那张圆月般的笑脸。最后变态者训练了一条狗送给他。他带着狗去捕鳟鱼时，那条训练有素的狗叼回他扔进池塘里用来捕鱼的炸药，圆脸男人终被炸死。变态者为自己成功制造的"意外死亡"窃喜不已。