Short stories around 79 minutes

Dr Macphail lit his pipe and searched the heavens for the Southern Cross. The crowd made their way to a great shed of corrugated iron where they stood for some time and then were joined by Mr...

I wept more bitterly, because my father had never seemed to love, and I learned that my sister was dead. When I reached the age of sixteen, my mother's plans began to develop, and we moved to...

Sir Arthur T - - n was ruinously addicted to gaming, and was examined by Hugh Tisdall, who stated that he had won back his original loss and four thousand pounds in addition. Sir Arthur Faulkner's...

The decay of ancient grandeur interests even the most unconcerned spectator, as evidences of greatness still exist in Ireland. The. became close and confidential companions with young O'Connor and...

One of the family chose deliberately to stay at home, but the eagerness with which all the passengers rise as soon as the locomotive begins to slow is inspiring. The excursionists fall into great...

The Ewberts came to live in Hilbrook shortly after Hilbrook University was established, and from the first she complained that the Rixonites were cold. Ewbert went to see Hilbrook, who lived alone...

We first met Glendenning on the Canadian boat, but Mrs. March clutched my arm and bade me not speak a word. The older of these ladies was a tall, handsome matron, and she accepted my chair in the...

Matthew Lanfear stopped off at San Remo in the interest of a friend, and was greeted by Miss Gerald, who took her hand from her father's arm and swept up the gravelled path between him and...

Langbourne walked about the town, unable to come into the hotel and go to bed, and fell asleep so quickly that he was aware of no moment of waking after his head touched the fragrant pillow. He...

I. Hamilton Gaites sat breakfasting by the window of a restaurant looking out on Park Square, in Boston, and mentally followed a piano on its way to a freight-depot. Gaites met with several friends...

In 1858, Fiddletown considered Mrs. Tretherick a very pretty woman with only two blemishes: her left cheek bore a small scar left by a single drop of vitriol. Mrs. Tretherick opened the door,...

The sun was going down on the Dedlow Marshes when two human figures appeared on the bank of a hidden channel. They each carried a gun and one was a young girl. Boone Culpepper held an invincible...