Clutterbuck's Treasure

In another of my dreams I was busily digging, while the dog Ginger watched my efforts. Suddenly I turned up a sod in which lay a piece of bread, and in the bread was folded a ch...

"The thing is, it's a new idea; and if Strong sees you removing one post, he'll remove another, and Clutterbuck a third, and you split your chances. _They_ may look under the ri...

"Holy Saint Vladimir, equal to the apostles, preserve us from such demons as that Swedish maniac when he caught sight of Kuzma and me and Gavril! He rushed straight at us like a...

No thieving jackal or designing lion could have stalked that party more patiently and noiselessly than we did; foot by foot, and yard by yard, we drew nearer to our prey, and at...

It was a treat to see M skin that lion, or any other animal. There was no mystery about the proceeding when _he_ had a hand in it. Off came the skin as easily as if the fellow w...

We inspected every apology for a track until it branched off into two or more other paths. We rode for several hours, absolutely ignorant whether we went deeper into the forest...

Our horses were not tired, we had not ridden very hard, and we agreed that this would be a good opportunity to push on and obtain a good start of the Strongs. The complacency wi...

"Gad," said Jack, as we left the court, "my opinion of that chap's cuteness strengthens every day! he _has_ intended, all along, to have another dig for the treasure. He expecte...

"They are very particular here," said the captain, "and are as likely as not to leave us half a day or so, just to give the germs a chance, in case they should require this much...

For once, old Jack--generally so much more to be depended upon than I, being a more gifted person all round, and infinitely smarter and more wide awake than your humble servant,...

"Yes, at Narva," said Edwards, suspecting nothing; "it's a place not so very far from Hogland, on the Esthonian shore. The fellow was a sailor apparently, and had behaved violen...

"Tea-money first!" said Michail. "Alexander says the little box is worth five roubles and the big one ten. At Narva, if I complained against the merciful gentleman for kicking m...

Three more reports rang out as we raced across the open, and, to my horror and despair, Jack fell. All my terror vanished at the sight, and only rage remained. I seized Jack's f...

I happened to have some distant relatives in Hull, and, partly because I could not as yet make up my mind upon the particular cock-and-bull story that would best serve me with t...

I. A Cowardly Attack II. The Old Miser III. The Great Prize is offered IV. I enter for the Race V. Treachery! VI. Rats in a Trap VII. Ghosts VIII. Neck and Neck for the First La...

I suppose that Mr. Clutterbuck's testamentary dispositions were just about as surprising and unexpected as such dispositions can well be, unless indeed they had emanated from an...

Did he intend to murder me in the hotel, I wonder? Jack says he thinks not; but then Jack did not feel the torture of that gag, and the horror of imminent suffocation as I did;...