Short stories around 39 minutes

The homeward passage from New Zealand is made via Cape Horn the. The Sunrise was beaten on the home stretch by twenty-four hours by Dick Lewis. Captain Maxwell sent Dick Lewis to the quarter-deck...

Archie was firm that Peter should come and skate too, and Dahlia couldn't possibly get through Calais and Pontarlier without declaring Peter. Simpson hastily disclaimed any intention of marrying...

My father, Major-General Wyn Leicester, a distinguished officer of artillery, succumbed five years ago to a complicated liver complaint acquired in the deadly climate of India. My brother Francis,...

Arthur left a silent motor-car and tramped up Tempest Mountain with two armed companions, where they dragged a wide four-poster bedstead from another room, where they discovered a man who possessed...

On 16 July 1923, I moved into Exham Priory after the last workman had finished his labours. After the war, my fortunes were extinguished and my whole existence changed by the burning of...

My cousin Tom Ludlow preferred the Church and died early, so we took up abode in an unoccupied house in Aungier Street. When I complained of uneasy nights and disturbed sleep, Tom burst open my...

Schalken's portrait of Rose Velderkaust, who was still younger than he, is in good preservation. Gerard Douw was astonished by Minheer Vanderhausen's communication, and experienced a kind of chill...

Toby Crooke, the sexton, was lying dead in the old coach-house in the inn yard, but returned, a reformed man at the ripe age of forty. He became the sexton of Golden Friars. The Vicar saw two men...

A small locomotive engine came clanking, and the smoke from the engine sank and cleaved to the rough grass. A mother and son stood at the foot of the three steps, and the mother watched her son's...

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...

Whiston lay still and looked at his wife, who scrambled her hair before the mirror. He sobered down to navy blue, but she tripped beside him. Elsie blushed and laughed, went to the arms of Sam...

The learned gentleman who examined the archives of the Cathedral of Southminster agreed that it was not earlier than the Perpendicular period, but Dean Burscough was very set on the Gothic...