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Cape Cod StoriesCape Cod Stories I don't exactly know why Cap'n Jonadab and me went to the post-office that night; we wa'n't expecting any mail, that's sartin. I guess likely we done it for the reason the feller that tumbled overboard went to the bottom'twas the...
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The Ivory TrailThe Ivory TrailGreen, ah greener than emeralds are, tree-tops beckon the dhows to land, White, oh whiter than diamonds are, blue waves burst on the amber sand, And nothing is fairer than Zanzibar from the Isles o' the West to the Marquesand. I was...
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Miss Minerva and William Green HillMiss Minerva and William Green Hill The bus drove up to the gate and stopped under the electric street-light. Perched on the box by the big, black negro driver sat a little boy whose slender figure was swathed in a huge rain coat. Mercy...
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A SirenA SirenIt was Carnival time in the ancient and once imperial, but now provincial and remote, city of Ravenna. It was Carnival time, and the very acme and high-tide of that season of mirth and revel. For the theory of Carnival observance is, that...
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The Old English Baron: a Gothic StoryThe Old English Baron: a Gothic Story As this Story is of a species which, though not new, is out of the common track, it has been thought necessary to point out some circumstances to the reader, which will elucidate the design, and, it...
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Corpus of a Siam MosquitoCorpus of a Siam Mosquito So he spoke, and the bright-eyed goddess, Athene, was pleased that she was the god he prayed to before all the others. She put strength in his shoulders and knees, and set in his heart the daring of a...
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Pearl-Maiden: A Tale of the Fall of JerusalemPearl-Maiden: A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem It was but two hours after midnight, yet many were wakeful in Csarea on the Syrian coast. Herod Agrippa, King of all Palestineby grace of the Romansnow at the very apex of his power, celebrated a...
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Allan and the Holy FlowerAllan and the Holy Flower I do not suppose that anyone who knows the name of Allan Quatermain would be likely to associate it with flowers, and especially with orchids. Yet as it happens it was once my lot to take part in an...
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Aladdin O'BrienAladdin O'Brien It was on the way home from Sunday-school that Aladdin had enticed Margaret to the forbidden river. She was not sure that he knew how to row, for he was prone to exaggerate his prowess at this and that, and she went...
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Hardscrabble or, the fall of Chicago: a tale of Indian warfareHardscrabble; or, the fall of Chicago: a tale of Indian warfare It was on a beautiful day in the early part of the month of April, 1812, that four persons were met in a rude farm-house, situated on the Southern Branch of the Chicago...
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Innocent : her fancy and his factInnocent : her fancy and his factThe old by-road went rambling down into a dell of deep green shadow. It was a reprobate of a road,a vagrant of the land,having long ago wandered out of straight and even courses and taken to meandering aimlessly...
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Guy GarrickGuy Garrick"You are aware, I suppose, Marshall, that there have been considerably over a million dollars' worth of automobiles stolen in this city during the past few months?" asked Guy Garrick one night when I had dropped into his office. "If you can wait...
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The Beetle: A MysteryThe Beetle: A Mystery To have tramped about all day looking for work; to have begged even for a job which would give me money enough to buy a little food; and to have tramped and to have begged in vain,that was bad. But,...
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The TreasureThe TreasureI. At Solberga Parsonage II. On the Quays III. The Messenger IV. In the Moonlight V. Haunted VI. In the Town Cellars VII. Unrest VIII. Sir Archie's Flight IX. Over the Ice X. The Roar of the Waves In the days when King...
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Agatha WebbAgatha WebbIA Cry on the Hill IIOne Night's Work IIIThe Empty Drawer IVThe Full Drawer VA Spot on the Lawn VI"Breakfast is Served, Gentlemen!" VII"Marry Me" VIII"A Devil That Understands Men" IXA Grand Woman XDetective Knapp Arrives XIThe Man with a Beard XIIWattles Comes...
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Beechcroft at RockstoneBeechcroft at Rockstone A telegram! Make haste and open it, Jane; they always make me so nervous! I believe that is the reason Reginald always will telegraph when he is coming, said Miss Adeline Mohun, a very pretty, well preserved, though delicate-looking lady of...
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Caesar's Column: A Story of the 20th CenturyCæsar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century[Redactor's note: In this one of his last books Donnelly presages later futurist works such as "Brave New World" and "1984". The original scans and OCR were provided by Mr. J.B. Hare; for further information about Donnelly...
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The Exploits of ElaineThe Exploits of Elaine"Here's this murder of Fletcher, the retired banker and trustee of the University," he explained. "Not a clueexcept a warning letter signed with this mysterious clutching fist. Last week it was the robbery of the Haxworth jewels and the killing of...
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Rung Ho! A NovelRung Ho! A Novel THAT was no time or place for any girl of twenty to be wandering unprotected. Rosemary McClean knew it; the old woman, of the sweeper caste, that is no caste at all,the hag with the flat breasts and wrinkled skin,...
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Rodney StoneRodney StoneAmongst the books to which I am indebted for my material in my endeavour to draw various phases of life and character in England at the beginning of the century, I would particularly mention Ashtons Dawn of the Nineteenth Century; Gronows Reminiscences; Fitzgeralds...
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