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Timmy Hutchinson gets lost near a mysterious tree, leading to village-wide panic and discovery of a magical realm.

A captain of a small cat boat noticed something floating to the leeward and reached out his hand for it. Inside was a piece of paper that read: "I am John Jones who writes this letter my ship is...

Sir Robert Ardagh, a gloomy and morose man, decided to go up alone to the castle, where he reclining on a table. The old man opened the door and saw his master reeling, and the door was thrown open...

The four men on Zip Coon Ledge had not got fairly settled to their morning's work, when one of them ran off to meet the advancing horseman and hand a brown envelope to their messenger. Jackson...

An officer of the Cuirassier Life Guards left the service and retired to a monastery to become a monk. He learned to dance and was soon invited to all the balls in the best circles. Two weeks...

The habitually quiet, ascetic face of Seth Rivers was somewhat disturbed when Mrs. Rivers refused to let him keep even his negro servant with him. The unconscious object of this criticism and...

The Prime Minister asks Holmes to investigate the theft of a letter of exceptional diplomatic importance.

John Mortonson was dead, and his body rested in a fine mahogany coffin fitted with a plate of glass. His face was not disagreeable to look upon, and his death had been painless. At two o'clock in...

Wharton was up-town lunching at Delmonico's when the voice over the telephone promised to name the man who killed Hermann Banf. He believed the injustice would soon end. Rumson and the detective...

I and my chimney, two grey-headed old smokers, reside in the country. Our fireplaces are on opposite sides, but our flue is separate throughout. The main reason of this style of chimney building is...

Gubin was in a tavern, where I first saw him. He reminded me of a homeless dog, and his words caused his lips to bare stumps and gums amid which they lost their way, became disintegrated...

A woman marries a meek, scientifically minded doctor but can't help comparing him to her much-admired artistic friends.