Read the paragraph and answer the question. In the beginning he was Christopher Bellew. By the time he was
at college he had become Chris Bellew. Later, in the Bohemian
crowd of San Francisco, he was called Kit Bellew. And in the end
he was known by no other name than Smoke Bellew. And this
history of the evolution of his name is the history of his
evolution. Nor would it have happened had he not had a fond
mother and an iron uncle, and had he not received a letter
from Gillet Bellamy
"I have just seen a copy of the Billow," Gillet wrote from Paris.
"Of course O'Hara will succeed with it. But he's missing some
plays." (Here followed details in the improvement of the
budding society weekly.) "Go down and see him. Let him think
they're your own suggestions. Don't let him know they're from
me. If he does, he'll make me Paris correspondent, which I can't
afford, because I'm getting real money for my stuff from the big
magazines. Above all, don't forget to make him fire that dub
who's doing the musical and art criticism. Another thing, San
Francisco has always had a literature of her own. But she hasn't
any now..."
Excerpt from Jack London's Smoke Bellew