Frank Noyes Westcott was the author of: Dabney Todd (1914), Hepsey Burke (1914) and Nickey Burke (1915). "The noisy, loose-jointed train pulled out of the station, leaving behind it a solitary young man, enveloped in smoke and cinders. In the middle of the platform stood a little building with a curb roof, pointed at both ends like a Noah's Ark; and the visitor felt that if he could only manage to lift up one side of the roof he would find the animals "two by two, " together with the cylindrical Noah and the rest of his family. "