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Chronicles of the Canongate, 1st SeriesChronicles of the Canongate, 1st Series [It has been suggested to the Author that it might be well to reprint here a detailed account of the public dinner alluded to in the foregoing Introduction, as given in the newspapers of the time; and the...
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The Make-Believe ManThe Make-Believe Man I had made up my mind that when my vacation came I would spend it seeking adventures. I have always wished for adventures, but, though I am old enoughI was twenty-five last Octoberand have always gone half-way to meet them, adventures...
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Peace ManoeuvresPeace Manoeuvres The scout stood where three roads cut three green tunnels in the pine woods, and met at his feet. Above his head an aged sign-post pointed impartially to East Carver, South Carver, and Carver Centre, and left the choice to him. The...
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The SpyThe Spy My going to Valencia was entirely an accident. But the more often I stated that fact, the more satisfied was everyone at the capital that I had come on some secret mission. Even the venerable politician who acted as our minister, the...
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The AmateurThe Amateur It was February off the Banks, and so thick was the weather that, on the upper decks, one could have driven a sleigh. Inside the smoking-room Austin Ford, as securely sheltered from the blizzard as though he had been sitting in front...
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A Charmed LifeA Charmed Life She loved him so, that when he went away to a little war in which his country was interested she could not understand, nor quite forgive. As the correspondent of a newspaper, Chesterton had looked on at other wars; when the...
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A Wasted DayA Wasted Day When its turn came, the private secretary, somewhat apologetically, laid the letter in front of the Wisest Man in Wall Street. From Mrs. Austin, probation officer, Court of General Sessions, he explained. Wants a letter about Spear. Hes been convicted of...
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The MessengersThe Messengers When Ainsley first moved to Lone Lake Farm all of his friends asked him the same question. They wanted to know, if the farmer who sold it to him had abandoned it as worthless, how one of the idle rich, who could...
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A Question of LatitudeA Question of Latitude Of the school of earnest young writers at whom the word muckraker had been thrown in opprobrium, and by whom it had been caught up as a title of honor, Everett was among the younger and less conspicuous. But, if...
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The Agony ColumnThe Agony Column Two years ago, in July that historic summer was almost unbearably hot. It seems, looking back, as though the big baking city in those days was meant to serve as an anteroom of torturean inadequate bit of preparation for the hell...
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Bucky O'Connor: A Tale of the Unfenced BorderBucky O'Connor: A Tale of the Unfenced Border I write your name on this page that you may know we hold you not less in our thoughts because you have heard and answered again the call of the frozen North, have for the time...
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The Log of the "Jolly Polly"The Log of the "Jolly Polly" It is a way temptation has. Whenever I swear off drinking invariably I am invited to an ushers' dinner. Whenever I am rich, only the highbrow publications that pay the least, want my work. But the moment I...
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The Lost HouseThe Lost House It was a dull day at the chancellery. His Excellency the American Ambassador was absent in Scotland, unveiling a bust to Bobby Burns, paid for by the numerous lovers of that poet in Pittsburg; the First Secretary was absent at Aldershot,...
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The Gentle GrafterThe Gentle Grafter The Octopus Marooned -- Jeff Peters as a Personal Magnet -- Modern Rural Sports -- The Chair of Philanthromathematics -- The Hand That Riles the World -- The Exact Science of Matrimony -- A Midsummer Masquerade -- Shearing the Wolf --...
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Wyoming: A Story of the Outdoor WestWyoming: A Story of the Outdoor West An automobile shot out from a gash in the hills and slipped swiftly down to the butte. Here it came to a halt on the white, dusty road, while its occupant gazed with eager, unsated eyes on...
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The ConsulThe Consul For over forty years, in one part of the world or another, old man Marshall had, served his country as a United States consul. He had been appointed by Lincoln. For a quarter of a century that fact was his distinction. It...
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The Nature FakerThe Nature Faker Richard Herrick was a young man with a gentle disposition, much money, and no sense of humor. His object in life was to marry Miss Catherweight. For three years she had tried to persuade him this could not be, and finally,...
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Billy and the Big StickBilly and the Big Stick Had the Wilmot Electric Light people remained content only to make light, had they not, as a by-product, attempted to make money, they need not have left Hayti. When they flooded with radiance the unpaved streets of Port-au-Prince no...
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My Buried TreasureMy Buried Treasure This is a true story of a search for buried treasure. The only part that is not true is the name of the man with whom I searched for the treasure. Unless I keep his name out of it he will...
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The Man Who Could Not LoseThe Man Who Could Not Lose The Carters had married in haste and refused to repent at leisure. So blindly were they in love, that they considered their marriage their greatest asset. The rest of the world, as represented by mutual friends, considered it...
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