Short stories around 55 minutes

Silas Hickler was eminently a man of judgment. He fell to upon the biscuits with evident gusto and talked little. Silas creeped into the sitting-room, cut the rope holding the umbrella to the...

Mr. Pembury was not pleased when Pratt was ushered into his compartment, but Pratt smiled grimly and said he must be eliminated. Pembury set forth from the hotel with a definite purpose, bought a...

The events which I am about to relate took place between nine and ten years ago. William Langford, Jonathan Jelf's cousin, invited him to spend Christmas week with them. Loquacious Mr. Dwerrihouse...

The population of the towns of Manhattan has more than trebled, and it is easy to foresee that two to one will be maintained with difficulty. New York is closer to a state of nature than any other...

As I look back on my life, the only one who truly understood me was this same Paul, my dearest brother. He was always sad over those who had once been prosperous but who were now old and...

In the spring of 1906, a stocky, sturdy, penetrative temperament of not more than twenty-four or five years of age dawned on me. He bristled, but I wanted something interesting and get paid for...

Matt first met Rourke when he was laying the foundation for a small dynamo in the engine-room of the repair shop at Spike. Rourke was the foreman-mason for minor tasks for all that part of the...

The four Pickwickians assemble on the morning of the twenty-second day of December, and wait in the cold on the outside of the Muggleton coach, while Mr. Weller and the guard try to insinuate a...

I am a Cheap Jack, and I am partial to a white hat. The doctor accepted a tea-tray from me, and the old couple, though retired, cried out in the old patter, fluent, "Now here is a working model of...

The Bishop of London was among the first to expound on the vicious addiction of the lower classes of society to Sunday excursions. There are dozens of steamers to all sorts of places, and a...

A gentleman moves into a reputedly haunted country house; soon the servants are scared witless but the master is not convinced. Plays with d

Richard Watts founded a charity for six poor Travellers in the Old City of Rochester, which is a clean white house of a staid and venerable air. The Board Room is where the gentlemen meet, and the...