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Sawyer's Ledge was at first quite blotted out by wind and rain, but Daddy Folsom read a letter to Ricketts and laughed hysterically. Daddy Folsom returned to Lasham's cabin to relieve the watcher,...

After accepting a post as a music teacher at a country house, a woman begins to worry when she is followed by a mysterious stranger on her w

A hen belonging to Ivan Scherbakoff's daughter-in-law started laying eggs and the children frightened it. The neighbor's son and Ivan's wife began to abuse each other. Gavryl's wife went round...

We can’t be other than we are and we are hungry for some fruit...

A most dreadful thing has happened - a horrible murder has been committed. Mr. Marchmont certified that the man was dead, and Thorndyke produced a small folding camera, a telescopic tripod, a...

Mary Boyne and her husband, requiring a country home in England after a business windfall, acquire a reputedly haunted house.

A good old canon of Notre Dame de Paris gave himself up earnestly to the confessing of ladies, made money with holy water, and had three heirs, but his heart had cracked a little. One evening the...

A young girl falls in love with a mysterious stranger, shipwrecked in the bay near her village.

Bachmann sat on a bench in the shade that smelled sickly with blossom and watched as the sergeant took command and the little company moved forward. Bachmann mounted the small, quick-hurrying tram...

Gallegher was short and broad in build, wore a happy smile, and was good at amusing the Press's young men. He loved crime. Gallegher's knowledge of aliases led him to the Burrbank murder, but the...

A visit to an old friend takes an unexpected turn.

The difference between a good and a bad economist is whether they take account of the visible effect. A member of the assembly proposes to disband a hundred thousand men, but the assembly maintains...