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The Red AcornThe Red Acorn The name given this story is that made glorious by the valor and achievements of the splendid First Division of the Fourteenth Army Corps, the cognizance of which was a crimson acorn, worn on the breasts of its gallant soldiers, and...
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Benita, an African romanceBenita, an African romance It was said about five-and-twenty or thirty years ago that an adventurous trader, hearing from some natives in the territory that lies at the back of Quilimane, the legend of a great treasure buried in or about the sixteenth century...
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The BrethrenThe Brethren R.M.S. Mongolia, 12th May, 1904 Mayhap, Ella, here too distance lends its enchantment, and these gallant brethren would have quarrelled over Rosamund, or even had their long swords at each others throat. Mayhap that Princess and heroine might have failed in the...
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The Man in the Iron MaskThe Man in the Iron Mask In the months of March-July in 1844, in the magazine Le Siecle, the first portion of a story appeared, penned by the celebrated playwright Alexandre Dumas. It was based, he claimed, on some manuscripts he had found a...
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The Golden DogThe Golden Dog In the year 1877 the first edition of The Golden Dog (Le Chien d'Or) was brought out in the United States, entirely without my knowledge or sanction. Owing to the inadequacy of the then existing copyright laws, I have been powerless...
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A Tale of Three LionsA Tale of Three Lions Most of you will have heard that Allan Quatermain, who was one of the party that discovered King Solomons mines some little time ago, and who afterwards came to live in England near his friend Sir Henry Curtis. He...
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Long OddsLong Odds The story which is narrated in the following pages came to me from the lips of my old friend Allan Quatermain, or Hunter Quatermain, as we used to call him in South Africa. He told it to me one evening when I...
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Allan's WifeAllan's Wife My Dear Macumazahn, It was your native name which I borrowed at the christening of that Allan who has become as well known to me as any other friend I have. It is therefore fitting that I should dedicate to you this,...
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Hunter Quatermain's StoryHunter Quatermain's Story Sir Henry Curtis, as everybody acquainted with him knows, is one of the most hospitable men on earth. It was in the course of the enjoyment of his hospitality at his place in Yorkshire the other day that I heard the...
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Red Pepper BurnsRed Pepper Burns Don't you hear? Red's coming in on five cylinders for all he can get out of 'em. Anybody else would stop and fix up. He's in too much of a hurryas usual. The Green Imp tore past the porch where Burns's...
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A First Family of TasajaraA First Family of Tasajara As if to accent the words of the speaker a heavy gust of wind at that moment shook the long light wooden structure which served as the general store of Sidon settlement, in Contra Costa. Even after it had...
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Morning StarMorning Star Only a friendship extending over many years emboldened me, an amateur, to propose to dedicate a Romance of Old Egypt to you, one of the worlds masters of the language and lore of the great people who in these latter days arise...
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Eric BrighteyesEric Brighteyes Eric Brighteyes is a romance founded on the Icelandic Sagas. What is a saga? Is it a fable or a true story? The answer is not altogether simple. For such sagas as those of Burnt Njal and Grettir the Strong partake both...
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The Pension BeaurepasThe Pension BeaurepasI was not richon the contrary; and I had been told the Pension Beaurepas was cheap. I had, moreover, been told that a boarding-house is a capital place for the study of human nature. I had a fancy for a literary career,...
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Nona VincentNona VincentI wondered whether you wouldnt read it to me, said Mrs. Alsager, as they lingered a little near the fire before he took leave. She looked down at the fire sideways, drawing her dress away from it and making her proposal with a...
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Greville FaneGreville FaneComing in to dress for dinner, I found a telegram: Mrs. Stormer dying; can you give us half a column for to-morrow evening? Let her off easy, but not too easy. I was late; I was in a hurry; I had very little...
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The ChaperonThe ChaperonAn old lady, in a high drawing-room, had had her chair moved close to the fire, where she sat knitting and warming her knees. She was dressed in deep mourning; her face had a faded nobleness, tempered, however, by the somewhat illiberal compression...
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The Real Thing and Other TalesThe Real Thing and Other TalesWhen the porters wife (she used to answer the house-bell), announced A gentlemanwith a lady, sir, I had, as I often had in those days, for the wish was father to the thought, an immediate vision of sitters. Sitters...
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Sir Dominick FerrandSir Dominick FerrandThere are several objections to it, but Ill take it if youll alter it, Mr. Lockets rather curt note had said; and there was no waste of words in the postscript in which he had added: If youll come in and see...
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Maiwa's Revenge Or, The War of the Little HandMaiwa's Revenge; Or, The War of the Little Hand It may be well to state that the incident of the Thing that bites recorded in this tale is not an effort of the imagination. On the contrary, it is plagiarized. Mandara, a well-known chief...
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