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PandoraPandoraIt has long been the custom of the North German Lloyd steamers, which convey passengers from Bremen to New York, to anchor for several hours in the pleasant port of Southampton, where their human cargo receives many additions. An intelligent young German, Count Otto...
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Snow-Bound at Eagle'sSnow-Bound at Eagle's For some moments profound silence and darkness had accompanied a Sierran stage-coach towards the summit. The huge, dim bulk of the vehicle, swaying noiselessly on its straps, glided onward and upward as if obeying some mysterious impulse from behind, so faint...
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Waifs and StraysWaifs and Strays - Part 1 Espirition, the Mexican, who had been sent forty miles in a buckboard from the Espinosa Ranch to fetch it, returned with a shrugging shoulder and hands empty except for a cigarette. At the small station, Nopal, he had...
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David ElginbrodDavid Elginbrod Note from electronic text creator: I have compiled a word list with definitions of most of the Scottish words found in this work at the end of the book. This list does not belong to the original work, but is designed to...
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Through RussiaThrough Russia The year was the year '92the year of leannessthe scene a spot between Sukhum and Otchenchiri, on the river Kodor, a spot so near to the sea that amid the joyous babble of a sparkling rivulet the ocean's deep-voiced thunder was plainly...
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HavocHavoc Bellamy, Kings Spy, and Dorward, journalist, known to fame in every English-speaking country, stood before the double window of their spacious sitting-room, looking down upon the thoroughfare beneath. Both men were laboring under a bitter sense of failure. Bellamys face was dark with...
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Devil's FordDevil's Ford It was a season of unequalled prosperity in Devil's Ford. The half a dozen cabins scattered along the banks of the North Fork, as if by some overflow of that capricious river, had become augmented during a week of fierce excitement by...
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Ridgway of Montana (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain)Ridgway of Montana (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain) She had come to the parting of the ways, and she knew it, with a shrewd suspicion as to which she would choose. She had asked for a week to...
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Animal HeroesAnimal Heroes A hero is an individual of unusual gifts and achievements. Whether it be man or animal, this definition applies; and it is the histories of such that appeal to the imagination and to the hearts of those who hear them. In this...
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The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other TalesThe Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Tales The sun was going down on the Dedlow Marshes. The tide was following it fast as if to meet the reddening lines of sky and water in the west, leaving the foreground to grow blacker and...
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The Lost RoadThe Lost Road In common with many others who have been with Richard Harding Davis as correspondents, I find it difficult to realize that he has covered his last story and that he will not be seen again with the men who follow the...
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A Millionaire of Rough-and-ReadyA Millionaire of Rough-and-Ready It had lain there before him a moment agoa misshapen piece of brown-stained quartz, interspersed with dull yellow metal; yielding enough to have allowed the points of his pick to penetrate its honeycombed recesses, yet heavy enough to drop from...
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A Waif of the PlainsA Waif of the Plains A long level of dull gray that further away became a faint blue, with here and there darker patches that looked like water. At times an open space, blackened and burnt in an irregular circle, with a shred of...
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Condensed NovelsCondensed Novels The Dodds were dead. For twenty year they had slept under the green graves of Kittery churchyard. The townfolk still spoke of them kindly. The keeper of the alehouse, where David had smoked his pipe, regretted him regularly, and Mistress Kitty, Mrs....
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The Pioneers Or, The Sources of the SusquehannaThe Pioneers; Or, The Sources of the Susquehanna As this work professes, in its title-page, to be a descriptive tale, they who will take the trouble to read it may be glad to know how much of its contents is literal fact, and how...
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The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified SinnerThe Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner It appears from tradition, as well as some parish registers still extant, that the lands of Dalcastle (or Dalchastel, as it is often spelled) were possessed by a family of the name of Colwan, about...
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He Fell in Love with His WifeHe Fell in Love with His Wife The dreary March evening is rapidly passing from murky gloom to obscurity. Gusts of icy rain and sleet are sweeping full against a man who, though driving, bows his head so low that he cannot see his...
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Sketches in Lavender, Blue and GreenSketches in Lavender, Blue and GreenReginald Blake, Financier and Cad An item of Fashionable Intelligence Blas Billy The Choice of Cyril Harjohn The Materialisation of Charles and Mivanway Portrait of a Lady The Man Who Would Manage The Man Who Lived For Others A...
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A Damsel in DistressA Damsel in Distress[Transcriber's Note for edition 11: in para. 4 of Chapter 19, the word "leafy" has been changed to "leaky". "leafy" was the word used in the printed edition, but was an obvious misprint. Some readers have noted that other editions have...
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All Roads Lead to CalvaryAll Roads Lead to CalvaryShe had not meant to stay for the service. The door had stood invitingly open, and a glimpse of the interior had suggested to her the idea that it would make good copy. Old London Churches: Their Social and Historical...
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