Short stories around 49 minutes

I do not like walking for walking's sake, but sometimes I go on a pedestrian tour through the brick-yards towards the Irish settlement on the north. A woman standing upright beside another woman...

Colonel Kenton said he had only two things against the Black Forest: it was not black, and the inhabitants burned charcoal and carved toys. The present journey was made just after the close of the...

Rulledge said that it's easy to see what Wanhope does his high thinking on, and continued smoking his cigar. Minver ran after him, and Rulledge felt like another boy. Ormond saw the figure of Death...

When they spent the winter in Paris planning for the summer in America, the boy pulled out Tata's trunk first and piled the things in it next to her trunk. Forsyth said that his little girl mustn't...

Frederick Erlcort was laughing with a blonde at the book-counter when he stopped at the bell-pull of an elderly girl's studio ten stories above. The friends decided that the front of the shop...

Alford had his first intimation of the strange effect after watching the target practice from the fort. Alford dropped weakly into a chair and abandoned himself to the logic of the events, but...

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 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...

Stephen Masterton was dragged from the tent of the Tasajara camp meeting and placed in a dilapidated adobe house. There he kept loyal faith with his physician and gave himself up to simple walks...

Father Felipe read the announcement that Don Jose Sepulvida would preside over the Board of Education in Jonesville. Don Jose Sepulvida, sitting alone in the same apartment, beheld to his...

Mr. Oakhurst was shocked to find the sun streaming through an inadvertently opened window. He saw a man coming slowly toward him in a carriage and instantly conceived that the carriage was the...

Colonel Starbottle leaned back in his chair and abandoned himself to one of his dreamy reminiscences, after being appointed guardian of Pansy Stannard. Colonel Starbottle met Miss Tish with a bow...