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The Last Of The Troubadours
Inexorably Sam Galloway saddled his pony. He was going away from the Rancho Altito at the end of a three-months’ visit. It is not to be exp…
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The Sleuths
In The Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out. All the agencies of i…
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Witches’ Loaves
Miss Martha Meacham kept the little bakery on the corner (the one where you go up three steps, and the bell tinkles when you open the door)…
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The Pride Of The Cities
Said Mr. Kipling, “The cities are full of pride, challenging each to each.” Even so. New York was empty. Two hundred thousand of its people…
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Holding Up A Train
Note. The man who told me these things was for several years an outlaw in the Southwest and a follower of the pursuit he so frankly describ…
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Ulysses And The Dogman
Do you know the time of the dogmen? When the forefinger of twilight begins to smudge the clear-drawn lines of the Big City there is inaugur…
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The Champion Of The Weather
If you should speak of the Kiowa Reservation to the average New Yorker he probably wouldn’t know whether you were referring to a new politi…
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Makes The Whole World Kin
The burglar stepped inside the window quickly, and then he took his time. A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before takin…
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At Arms With Morpheus
I never could quite understand how Tom Hopkins came to make that blunder, for he had been through a whole term at a medical college—before…
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A Ghost Of A Chance
“Actually, a hod!” repeated Mrs. Kinsolving, pathetically. Mrs. Bellamy Bellmore arched a sympathetic eyebrow. Thus she expressed condolenc…
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I.
Supper was over, and there had fallen upon the camp the silence that accompanies the rolling of corn-husk cigarettes. The water hole shone…
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The Door Of Unrest
I sat an hour by sun, in the editor’s room of the Montopolis Weekly Bugle. I was the editor. The saffron rays of the declining sunlight fil…
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The Duplicity Of Hargraves - (1)
When Major Pendleton Talbot, of Mobile, sir, and his daughter, Miss Lydia Talbot, came to Washington to reside, they selected for a boardin…
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The Duplicity Of Hargraves - (2)
At last Miss Lydia turned and looked at the major. His thin nostrils were working like the gills of a fish. He laid both shaking hands upon…
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Let Me Feel Your Pulse
So I went to a doctor. “How long has it been since you took any alcohol into your system?” he asked. Turning my head sidewise, I answered,…
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October And June
The Captain gazed gloomily at his sword that hung upon the wall. In the closet near by was stored his faded uniform, stained and worn by we…
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The Church With An Overshot-Wheel
Lakelands is not to be found in the catalogues of fashionable summer resorts. It lies on a low spur of the Cumberland range of mountains on…
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New York By Camp Fire Light
Away out in the Creek Nation we learned things about New York. We were on a hunting trip, and were camped one night on the bank of a little…
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The Adventures Of Shamrock Jolnes
I am so fortunate as to count Shamrock Jolnes, the great New York detective, among my muster of friends. Jolnes is what is called the “insi…
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The Lady Higher Up
New York City, they said, was deserted; and that accounted, doubtless, for the sounds carrying so far in the tranquil summer air. The breez…
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The Greater Coney
“Next Sunday,” said Dennis Carnahan, “I’ll be after going down to see the new Coney Island that’s risen like a phoenix bird from the ashes…
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Law And Order - (1)
I found myself in Texas recently, revisiting old places and vistas. At a sheep ranch where I had sojourned many years ago, I stopped for a…
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Law And Order - (2)
“This youngster had on one of them cowboy suits such as tenderfoots bring West with ’em; and you could see he was aching to wing a couple o…
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Transformation Of Martin Burney
In behalf of Sir Walter’s soothing plant let us look into the case of Martin Burney. They were constructing the Speedway along the west ban…
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The Caliph And The Cad
Surely there is no pastime more diverting than that of mingling, incognito, with persons of wealth and station. Where else but in those cir…
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The Diamond Of Kali
The original news item concerning the diamond of the goddess Kali was handed in to the city editor. He smiled and held it for a moment abov…
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The Day We Celebrate
“In the tropics” (“Hop-along” Bibb, the bird fancier, was saying to me) “the seasons, months, fortnights, week-ends, holidays, dog-days, Su…