Short stories around 42 minutes

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Three years ago I met Alastair Colvin on the Friday evening mail-train to Brindisi. When I was travelling in India some years ago, John Broughton told me that he had decided to marry and settle...

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...

Karswell has been pelting me with letters ever since he offered to show the school children magic-lantern slides. Mr Dunning was returning from the British Museum, and if you could find time to...

I was staying with the rector of a parish in the West and was told to ask John Hill about Martin's Close. The murderer may have been buried there. The prisoner pleaded not guilty to murdering a...

A person not in the story said to the Professor of Ontography that Mr. Parkins was scrupulously polite and strictly truthful. Parkins got away from his college the following day and found himself...

Dr. Ashton, a wealthy man and childless, sat in his study, looking expectant. He had adopted the orphan son of his wife's sister. A fox stole Mrs. Ashton's most prized black cockerel, and the next...