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Well, After All--Well, After All-- It was an interesting scene, beyond doubt, said Mr. Westwood, the senior partner in the Bracken-shire Bank of Westwood, Westwood, Barwell, & Westwood. Yes, I felt more than once greatly interested in the course of the day. Greatly interested? Greatly interested?...
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Two Women or One? From the Mss. of Dr. Leonard BenaryTwo Women or One? From the Mss. of Dr. Leonard Benary My name is Leonard Benaryrather a foreign-sounding name, though I am a pure-blooded Englishman. I reside at No. 63, Riverview Road, in the American city of Adironda, though I was born in Devonshire....
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The Sin That Was HisThe Sin That Was His OF Arthur Leroy, commonly known throughout the Yukon as Three-Ace Artie, Ton-Nugget Camp knew a good dealand equally knew very little. He had drifted in casually one day, and, evidently finding the environment remuneratively to his liking, had stayed....
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The Trufflers: A StoryThe Trufflers: A Story PETER ERICSON MANN leaned back in his chair and let his hands fall listlessly from the typewriter to his lap. He got up, walked to one of the front windows of the dingy old studio and peered gloomily out at...
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The Royal End: A RomanceThe Royal End: A Romance BALZATORE, by many coquetries, had long been trying to attract their attention. At last he had succeeded. You have an admirer, Ruth, with a gleam, remarked to her companion. Mercy, how he's ogling you. Yes, answered Lucilla Dor, untroubled,...
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SandburrsSandburrs A SANDBURR is a foolish, small vegetable, irritating and grievously useless. Therefore this volume of sketches is named Sandburrs. Some folk there be who apologize for the birth of a book. There's scant propriety of it. A book is but a legless, dormant...
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In Red and GoldIn Red and Gold ON a night in October, 1911, the river steamer Yen Hsin lay alongside the godown, or warehouse, of the Chinese Navigation Company at Shanghai. Her black hull bulked large in the darkness that was spotted with inadequate electric lights. Her...
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Priscilla and Charybdis: A Story of AlternativesPriscilla and Charybdis: A Story of Alternatives WHAT Morley Quorn could not understand was why people made such a fuss over that fellow Kelton. Who was Kelton anyway that he should give himself airs, he enquired with some insistence of the five bassithey were...
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According to PlatoAccording to Plato No one who has not been bankrupt at least twice could afford to be so careful about his dress as Mr. Richmond is, said Josephine. It certainly is the shortest way to distinction, said Josephine. Bankruptcys a sort of English Legion...
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The Love That PrevailedThe Love That Prevailed The old church ways be good enough for me, said Miller Pendelly as he placed on the table a capacious jug of cider, laying a friendly left hand on the shoulder of Jake Pullsford, the carrier, as he bent across...
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The Plunderers: A NovelThe Plunderers: A Novel ON the day before Christmas a man of middle age, middle height, and middle weight, smooth-shaven, dressed in black and wearing black gloves, walked into the business office of the New York Herald. He approached the first Advertisements window, looked...
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The Other WorldThe Other World This Other World is indeed not so far distant from our own that is ruled by the sunne and moon. Therein the Prince of the Power of the Air hath his dominion, whose servants are the Witch and the Warlock,... the...
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The Last PennyThe Last Penny THOMAS LEIGH, ex-boy, considered the dozen neckties before him a long time, and finally decided to wait until after breakfast. It was his second day at home and his third day out of college. Already his undergraduate life seemed far away....
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The Mountain School-TeacherThe Mountain School-Teacher THERE had once been a path along the backbone of the mountain, but the wilderness had undertaken to remove it, and had almost succeeded. The wind had gathered bits of moss, twigs and dead stuff into the slight depression. The great...
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Tales from a Rolltop DeskTales from a Rolltop Desk I take the liberty of dedicating these little stories to you, with affection and respect. They have all grown, in one mood or another, out of the various life of Grub Street, suggested by adventures with publishers, booksellers, magazine...
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A Man: His Mark. A RomanceA Man: His Mark. A Romance - Second Edition One forenoon, in the winter of the great storms that swept the Pacific States, Adrian Wilder, a tall, slender, dark young man, stood in front of his stone hut on a shoulder of Mt. Shasta...
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The Jessamy BrideThe Jessamy Bride Sir, said Dr. Johnson, we have eaten an excellent dinner, we are a company of intelligent menalthough I allow that we should have difficulty in proving that we are so if it became known that we sat down with a Scotchmanand...
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The Prodigal SonThe Prodigal SonIceland had never looked more wonderful. The stern old Northland, which in the daylight bears always and everywhere on its sphinx-like face the mutilating imprint of the burnt-out fires of ten thousand ages, and would seem to be dead but for the...
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Henry Is 20: A Further Episodic History of Henry Calverly, IIIHenry Is Twenty: A Further Episodic History of Henry Calverly, 3rd It would be ungracious to let this book go out into a preoccupied world without some word of gratitude to those who have written regarding the young Henry as he has appeared from...
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A Gray Eye or So. In Three Volumes—Volume IIA Gray Eye or So. In Three Volumes—Volume II HE was still pondering over the many aspects of the question which, to his mind, needed solution, when he returned to the Castle, to find Lord Fotheringay in a chair by the side of a...
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