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Obinze met the Angolans at a tube station and handed over two hundred pounds. A few days later he met the girl, Cleotilde, at a shopping center. Obinze met Brown at the train station in Barking,...

The Captain was a tall man of about forty, with reddish-brown, stiff hair, and a Prussian aristocrat. He grew madly irritable and harsh and cruelly bullying his young soldier, using contempt and...

A stranger was a guest at Halson's and was better known to Minver than to the rest of our little group. He lighted a cigar and heaved a sigh of fond reminiscence and looked round for sympathy. The...

A Grizzled Personage in velveteen was found smoking a pipe at the door of a wooden house on wheels. Mr. Magsman was a un-common small man, and always in love. One day at Egham Races, Chops sent for...

A man and his daughter come accross an apparently mad, ill woman in a London park.

Tommaso Tonelli was rich but his heart was still young, but he was a fickle lover. Tonelli's life on holidays was varied. She dined with the notary, and her parrot had almost as much freedom as...

The enchanting poem about the Glugs who live in Gosh, a land of adventures and magic.

Adrian and friends join Merridions to defend Earth from Aelkighted invasion, gaining powers through DNA manipulation.

WILD cat was listening to the melody of distant hounds tracking a remote fox. She shinned up a tree as the dogs burst into view below her and stifled their songs upon the body of their victim...

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...

Twenty ladies and five hundred gentleman sat in a row in the hall, and Dr. Turner's theories were accepted at once. August Bopp, the new leader of the class, invented huskings, apple-bees,...

Austin Ford ordered hot gin for himself and the ship's doctor, and the ship's doctor sank into the leather cushion close to Ford's elbow. The widow was lying on the sofa, Ford sat down on a steamer...