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I had made up my mind that I would spend my vacation seeking adventures, but Kinney protested that this was no way to spend a vacation or to invite adventure. Friday night came and found us...

The Indians, who had been so well generaled and fought so ably, failed to follow up their victory by moving on the American settlements in force. The battle of Fallen Timbers was fought on the 20th...

I wept more bitterly, because my father had never seemed to love, and I learned that my sister was dead. When I reached the age of sixteen, my mother's plans began to develop, and we moved to...

I had to enter the service of a Petersburg official called Orlov, who was still out of humour. Zinaida Fyodorovna Krasnovsky hated me from the first day. Zinaida Fyodorovna came into the hall and...

Captain Jim burst into the little stream, and we yielded to his cheap fascination, accepting his extraordinary discoveries as "ignus fatuus rock" and "splendiferous drift". One day Lacy Bassett...

A man who wrote in code was killed and left in a bathtub. He was found by mistake. Soon a story surfaced about a man who thought in code. His body was found in a bathtub some weeks later. A man who...

Medina navigates her morning routine, reminisces about her marriage, and deals with household issues like cockroaches and financial stress.

In a sequestered district of the county of Limerick, there stood my early life, some forty years ago, a strong stone building, half castle, half farm-house. O'Mara turned upon Dwyer and gazed upon...

Bianchon, a physician to whom science owes a fine system of theoretical physiology, was isolated during his life by his egoism, and died in final impenitence, as do many noble geniuses. Horace...

The junior partner of the firm of Sparlow & Kane was gazing meditatively out of the corner of their little shop in Dupont Street when Madame le Blank entered, complaining of a head injury. The...

President Hamilear Poussevain withdrew the Wilmot Electric Light concession, surrounded the power-house with his barefooted army, and fired Billy. Billy left the Cafe Ducrot and made his way to the...

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...