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Doorstep Acquaintance
One of my friends is a blithesome troubadour, but prefers with the expanding spring to lay aside his grimy basket. A little old Genoese lady comes to sell us pins, needles, thread, tape, and the...
As Easy as A.B.C.
The A.B.C. controls the Planet and was informed that the District of Northern Illinois had cut itself out of all systems and would remain disconnected. De Forest glanced at the map as we flew over...
Ohio As A Part Of France
The Miami Indians were Aztecs in the ages before history began, and the Frenchmen who visited them were sent by the governor of Canada to lay claim to the Ohio valley for his king. The Miamis...
The Indiscreet Letter
The Young Electrician was arguing with his young friend when the Youngish Girl laughed explosively and caught up the latent amusement in the Young Electrician's face. Martha learned her table...
The Fox
The two girls took the farm together, but were left alone. March gave them their hot food at night, but from. One evening, March was walking slowly after Banford when she became aware that Banford...
The Atheist's Mass
Bianchon, a physician to whom science owes a fine system of theoretical physiology, was isolated during his life by his egoism, and died in final impenitence, as do many noble geniuses. Horace...
The Daughters of the Late Colonel
Two sisters readjust their lives following the death of their father.
Prosper's "Old Mother"
Joe Wynbrook lifted a glass of whiskey from the floor under his chair and took a long draught of the spirits with every symptom of satisfaction. He proceeded. Prosper was not perfectly happy with...
The Grasshopper
A woman marries a meek, scientifically minded doctor but can't help comparing him to her much-admired artistic friends.
The Two Husbands
Walter Gray was altogether dissimilar from Jane Emory, but they were friends and in many respects intimate. Cara Linton was seen with Charles Wilton and Walter Gray, and Walter was pleased with...
The House Of The Dead Hand
With the promise of a viewing of a lost Leonardo masterpiece, a man visits the home of the obsessive Dr. Lombard and his daughter.
A Prisoner in the Caucasus
An officer named Zhlin was serving in. He saw a red-bearded Tartar on a grey horse and drew his sword and dashed at him thinking. Zhlin hardly slept at all, peeped out of the hole in the wall, saw...