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The Phantoms Of The Foot-BridgeThe Phantoms Of The Foot-Bridge - 1895 Across the narrow gorge the little foot-bridge stretched-a brace of logs, the upper surface hewn, and a slight hand-rail formed of a cedar pole. A flimsy structure, one might think, looking down at the dark and rocky...
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The Riddle Of The RocksThe Riddle Of The Rocks - 1895 Upon the steep slope of a certain bald among the Great Smoky Mountains there lie, just at the verge of the strange stunted woods from which the treeless dome emerges to touch the clouds, two great tilted...
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The White Lady of Hazelwood: A Tale of the Fourteenth CenturyThe White Lady of Hazelwood: A Tale of the Fourteenth CenturyOn the crowded canvas of the fourteenth century stands out as one of its most prominent figures that of the warrior Countess of Montfort. No reader of Froissarts Chronicle can forget the siege of...
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The LeaderThe Leader... The career of The Leader remains one of the mysteries of history. This man, illegitimate and uneducated, hysterical and superstitious, gathered about him a crowded following of those who had been discontented, but whom he turned into fanatics. Apparently by pure force...
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The Day of WrathThe Day of Wrath"Szomor Napok" was written in the darkest days of Maurus Jkai's life, and reflects the depression of a naturally generous and sanguine nature bowed down, for a time, beneath an almost unendurable load of unmerited misfortune. The story was written shortly...
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A Circuit Rider's WifeA Circuit Rider's Wife If you will look back over the files of the "Southern Christian Advocate," published at the time in Macon, Georgia, you will find the following noticeby a singular coincidence on the page devoted to "obituaries": "MarriedMary Elizabeth Eden to William...
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The Music Master Novelized from the PlayThe Music Master; Novelized from the Play Anton Von Barwig rapped on the conductor's desk for silence and laid down his baton. The hundred men constituting the Leipsic Philharmonic Orchestra stopped playing as if by magic, and those who looked up from their music...
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The Man Next DoorThe Man Next Door I - How Come Us to Move II - Where We Threw In III - Us Living in Town IV - Us and Christmas Eve V - Us and the Home Ranch VI - Us and Them Better Thing VII...
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La gaviotaLa gaviotaEn noviembre del ao de 1836, el paquebote de vapor Royal Sovereign se alejaba de las costas nebulosas de Falmouth, azotando las olas con sus brazos, y desplegando sus velas pardas y hmedas en la neblina, an ms parda y ms hmeda que...
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The Big FixThe Big FixPhil Howland kept slipping open but he managed to close up before I could tell whether the combination of Three-Five-Two-Four meant a full house of fives over fours or whether he was betting on an open-ended straight that he hadn't bothered to...
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FollaFollaLe reste de la page tait lavenant ; vous jugez par cet chantillon de lapplication de llve. Elle trempait cependant sa plume jusquau fond de lencrier, ce qui rendait ses petits doigts bien noirs, et elle soupirait bien fort. Or il est de foi...
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RookwoodRookwoodDuring a visit to Chesterfield, in the autumn of the year 1831, I first conceived the notion of writing this story. Wishing to describe, somewhat minutely, the trim gardens, the picturesque domains, the rook-haunted groves, the gloomy chambers, and gloomier galleries, of an ancient...
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The Crucial MomentThe Crucial Moment - 1911 A mere moment seems an inconsiderable factor in lifeonly its multiplication attaining importance and signifying time. It could never have occurred to Walter Hoxer that all his years of labor, the aggregation of the material values of industry, experience,...
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His Unquiet GhostHis Unquiet Ghost - 1911 The moon was high in the sky. The wind was laid. So silent was the vast stretch of mountain wilderness, aglint with the dew, that the tinkle of a rill far below in the black abyss seemed less a...
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The Lost GuidonThe Lost Guidon - 1911 Night came early. It might well seem that day had fled affrighted. The heavy masses of clouds, glooming low, which had gathered thicker and thicker, as if crowding to witness the catastrophe, had finally shaken asunder in the concussions...
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Who Crosses Storm Mountain?Who Crosses Storm Mountain? - 1911 The wind stirred in the weighted pines; the snow lay on the ground. Here and there on its smooth, white expanse footprints betokened the woodland gentry abroad. In the pallid glister of the moon, even amid the sparse,...
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A Chilhowee LilyA Chilhowee Lily - 1911 Tall, delicate, and stately, with all the finished symmetry and distinction that might appertain to a cultivated plant, yet sharing that fragility of texture and peculiar suggestion of evanescence characteristic of the unheeded weed as it flowers, the Chilhowee...
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Una Of The Hill CountryUna Of The Hill Country - 1911 The old sawmill on Headlong Creek at the water-gap of Chilhowee Mountain was silent and still one day, its habit of industry suggested only in the ample expanse of sawdust spread thickly over a level open space...
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The Christmas MiracleThe Christmas Miracle - 1911 He yearned for a sign from the heavens. Could one intimation be vouchsafed him, how it would confirm his faltering faith! Jubal Kennedy was of the temperament impervious to spiritual subtleties, fain to reach conclusions with the line and...
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Wolf's HeadWolf's Head - 1911 It might well be called the country of the outlaw, this vast tract of dense mountain forests and craggy ravines, this congeries of swirling torrents and cataracts and rapids. Here wild beasts lurked out their savage lives, subsisting by fang...
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