# A little girl in tears

Author: Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937; Howard, Oscar, 1888-1942 [Illustrator]

Genre: Short stories

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78529

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=A+little+girl+in+tears+Butler&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The appetite for adventure grows by being fed. There was a night when Morley Smith, clubman and close to fifty years old, spurred by a chance book of fiction, let the check-boy at the club ease him into his eight-hundred-dollar fur-lined coat and sallied forth in a taxicab to seek adventure in a house chosen at random. Trivial as the adventure had been, it was a stirring event in Morley Smith’s placid, well-groomed life. For a week he munched it in his mind and was satisfied. He glowed with a feeling that he had seen life. Then came the urge to further adventure.

## Chapters

- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-little-girl-in-tears-78529/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-little-girl-in-tears-78529/chapters/2/index.md)