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Henry Horn's X-Ray Eye GlassesHenry Horn's X-Ray Eye Glasses"It's not enough to have a nudist colony move in next door!" fumed Professor Paulsen. "No, indeed! That wouldn't disrupt things enough. Now, in addition, every ne'er-do-well in the county comes prowling over our farm in order to spy on...
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The Old MartiansThe Old MartiansThe man with the pith helmet had his back toward me. Hunched forward, he was screaming at the girl in the lens of his camera. "Don't just stand there, Dotty! Move! Do something! Back up toward that column with inscriptions on it...."...
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The AmbassadorThe AmbassadorZalen Lindsay stood on the rostrum in the huge new United Worlds auditorium on the shore of Lake Pontchartrain and looked out at an ocean of eye-glasses. Individually they ranged in hue from the rose-tinted spectacles of the Americans to the dark brown...
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The Secret of KralitzThe Secret of KralitzI awoke from profound sleep to find two black-swathed forms standing silently beside me, their faces pale blurs in the gloom. As I blinked to clear my sleep-dimmed eyes, one of them beckoned impatiently, and suddenly I realized the purpose of...
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Little AliensLittle AliensAn ideal is like a golden pheasant. As soon as the hunter comes up with one he kills it in more or less bloody fashion, tears its feathers off, absorbs what he can of it, and then sets out, refreshed, in pursuit of...
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The Golgotha DancersThe Golgotha DancersI had come to the Art Museum to see the special show of Goya prints, but that particular gallery was so crowded that I could hardly get in, much less see or savor anything; wherefore I walked out again. I wandered through...
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A Novelist on NovelsA Novelist on NovelsA BED OF ROSES THE CITY OF NIGHT ISRAEL KALISCH[1] THE MAKING OF AN ENGLISHMAN[2] THE SECOND BLOOMING THE STRANGERS' WEDDING OLGA NAZIMOV (Short Stories) The chapters that follow have been written in varying moods, and express the fluctuating feelings aroused...
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The TelenizerThe TelenizerWhen you start seeing visions of a bearded gent with a halo, or having vague but wonderful dreams about some sort of perfect world, feeling intense loyalties to undefined ideals, and experiencing sudden impulses, sometimes cruel and sometimes kindyou know that something's wrong....
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The Luck of Gerard RidgeleyThe Luck of Gerard RidgeleyA fresh breeze was ploughing up the blue waves of the Indian Ocean, hurling off their crests in white, foamy masses, casting showers of salt spray upon the wet decks of the vessel as she plunged her nose into each...
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The Triumph of Hilary BlachlandThe Triumph of Hilary BlachlandIs it? Lets go and have a look at it then, was the prompt reply. But immediately upon having made it, the second speaker knew that he had spoken like a fool, for the first gave a short laugh. Go...
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A Frontier MysteryA Frontier MysterySuch were but few of the opprobrious phrases, rolled forth alternately, in the clear sonorous Zulu, from alternate sides of the river, which flowed laughing and bubbling on in the sunlight, between its high banks of tree-shaded rocks. Yet in spite of...
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Forging the Blades: A Tale of the Zulu RebellionForging the Blades: A Tale of the Zulu RebellionThe river swirled on through the heat, the sweltering, fever-breathing heat. The long, deep reach made but scant murmur, save where the boughs of a luxuriant vegetation dipped on its surface. Above, on either hand, masses...
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"And That's How It Was, Officer""And That's How It Was, Officer"No doubt, by this time, you and your boys are a pretty bewildered lot. You have all probably lost weight wondering what has been going on in Morton City; where all the gangsters went, and why the underworld has...
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Aletta: A Tale of the Boer InvasionAletta: A Tale of the Boer InvasionThe long room was packed fullfull of male Boers of all ages: that is to say, from those in earliest manhood to the white-bearded great-grandfathers of the communityBoers of every type, Boers hairy, Boers shaven, moleskin-clad and collarless...
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Twelve Times ZeroTwelve Times ZeroThey brought him into one of the basement rooms. He moved slowly and with a kind of painful dignity, as a man moves on his way to the firing squad. A rumpled shock of black hair pointed up the extreme pallor of...
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The Bramleighs of Bishop's FollyThe Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly My Dear Kinglake,If you should ever turn over these pages, I have no greater wish than that they might afford you a tithe of the pleasure I have derived from your own writings. But I will not ask you...
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Gerald Fitzgerald, the Chevalier: A NovelGerald Fitzgerald, the Chevalier: A Novel PUBLISHERS NOTE GERALD FITZGERALD BOOK THE FIRST. CHAPTER I. THE THIEVES CORNER CHAPTER II. THE LEVEE CHAPTER III. THE ALTIERI PALACE CHAPTER IV. THE PRINCES CHAMBER CHAPTER V. AFTER DARK CHAPTER VI. THE INTERVIEW CHAPTER VII. THE VILLA...
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Adventures of Hans Sterk: The South African Hunter and PioneerAdventures of Hans Sterk: The South African Hunter and PioneerIn the history of colonisation there is probably no example on record so extraordinary as that of the emigration from the colony of the Cape of Good Hope, in 1835, of nearly six thousand souls,...
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Big StupeBig StupeBruckner was a man deeply imbued with a sense of his own worth. Now as he rested his broad beam on the joined arms of Sweets and Majesky, he winked to include them in a "this is necessary, but you and I see...
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Rich LivingRich LivingCurtis Delman was the last to leave the space liner. It was only when the Captain entered that he ceased dictating and put down the microphone. Then, with the clumsy deliberation of the aged, he pressed home the lid of the recorder and...
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