Roads of Destiny

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1. Roads of Destiny - (1)
   I go to seek on many roads What is to be. True heart and strong, with love to light Will they not bear me in the fight To order, shun or wi…
2. Roads of Destiny - (2)
   The lady turned upon him a cordial look. Woman, however wedded to plots, must ever thus bow to rash courage. The big man stroked his upturn…
3. The Guardian of the Accolade
   Not the least important of the force of the Weymouth Bank was Uncle Bushrod. Sixty years had Uncle Bushrod given of faithful service to the…
4. The Discounters of Money
   The spectacle of the money-caliphs of the present day going about Bagdad-on-the-Subway trying to relieve the wants of the people is enough…
5. The Enchanted Profile
   There are few Caliphesses. Women are Scheherazades by birth, predilection, instinct, and arrangement of the vocal cords. The thousand and o…
6. "Next to Reading Matter" - (1)
   He compelled my interest as he stepped from the ferry at Desbrosses Street. He had the air of being familiar with hemispheres and worlds, a…
7. "Next to Reading Matter" - (2)
   "Well, sir, I talked an hour at the Señorita Anabela. I say 'at' because it was not 'with.' Now and then she would say: 'Oh, Señor,' or 'No…
8. Art and the Bronco - (1)
   Out of the wilderness had come a painter. Genius, whose coronations alone are democratic, had woven a chaplet of chaparral for the brow of…
9. Art and the Bronco - (2)
   "Look at that two-year-old, now," he would say, waving a cinnamon-brown hand toward the salient point of the picture. "Why, dang my hide, t…
10. Phoebe - (1)
    "You are a man of many novel adventures and varied enterprises," I said to Captain Patricio Maloné. "Do you believe that the possible eleme…
11. Phoebe - (2)
    "'I was first sergeant and drill-master,' said Kearny, 'in the Chilean army for one year. And captain of artillery for another.' "'What bec…
12. A Double-dyed Deceiver
    The trouble began in Laredo. It was the Llano Kid's fault, for he should have confined his habit of manslaughter to Mexicans. But the Kid w…
13. The Passing of Black Eagle
    For some months of a certain year a grim bandit infested the Texas border along the Rio Grande. Peculiarly striking to the optic nerve was…
14. A Retrieved Reformation
    A guard came to the prison shoe-shop, where Jimmy Valentine was assiduously stitching uppers, and escorted him to the front office. There t…
15. Cherchez la Femme
    Robbins, reporter for the Picayune, and Dumars, of L'Abeille the old French newspaper that has buzzed for nearly a century were good friend…
16. Friends in San Rosario - (1)
    The west-bound train stopped at San Rosario on time at 8.20 A.M. A man with a thick black-leather wallet under his arm left the train and w…
17. Friends in San Rosario - (2)
    "When a man's your friend," began Major Tom, somewhat didactically, "for forty years, and tried by water, fire, earth, and cyclones, when y…
18. The Fourth in Salvador
    On a summer's day, while the city was rocking with the din and red uproar of patriotism, Billy Casparis told me this story. In his way, Bil…
19. The Emancipation of Billy
    In the old, old, square-porticoed mansion, with the wry window-shutters and the paint peeling off in discoloured flakes, lived one of the l…
20. The Enchanted Kiss - (1)
    But a clerk in the Cut-rate Drug Store was Samuel Tansey, yet his slender frame was a pad that enfolded the passion of Romeo, the gloom of…
21. The Enchanted Kiss - (2)
    Huddled within narrow confines were the remnants of the once-famous purveyors of the celebrated Mexican national cookery. A few years befor…
22. A Departmental Case - (1)
    In Texas you may travel a thousand miles in a straight line. If your course is a crooked one, it is likely that both the distance and your…
23. A Departmental Case - (2)
    Mrs. Sharp sighed. "You see, Mr. Standifer, we didn't know anything about him, and he can be very pleasant and kind when he wants to. We li…
24. The Renaissance at Charleroi - (1)
    Grandemont Charles was a little Creole gentleman, aged thirty-four, with a bald spot on the top of his head and the manners of a prince. By…
25. The Renaissance at Charleroi - (2)
    The full moon, as she rose across the river that night and peeped above the levee saw a sight that had long been missing from her orbit. Th…
26. On Behalf of the Management - (1)
    This is the story of the man manager, and how he held his own until the very last paragraph. I had it from Sully Magoon, viva voce. The wor…
27. On Behalf of the Management - (2)
    "I put on my best reception-to-Booker-Washington manner the next day and tapped the distinguished rubber-plant for what he knew. "General R…
28. Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking - (1)
    It was with much caution that Whistling Dick slid back the door of the box-car, for Article 5716, City Ordinances, authorized (perhaps unco…
29. Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking - (2)
    "Boston," interrupted Whistling Dick, rising to his feet, "T'anks for the grub yous fellers has given me, but I'll be movin' on now." "What…
30. The Halberdier of the Little Rheinschloss
    I go sometimes into the Bierhalle and restaurant called Old Munich. Not long ago it was a resort of interesting Bohemians, but now only art…
31. Two Renegades
    In the Gate City of the South the Confederate Veterans were reuniting; and I stood to see them march, beneath the tangled flags of the grea…
32. The Lonesome Road
    Brown as a coffee-berry, rugged, pistoled, spurred, wary, indefeasible, I saw my old friend, Deputy-Marshal Buck Caperton, stumble, with ji…