Harper's New Monthly Magazine
The person who came in so suddenly to help the boys extinguish the fire under the corn-barn, on the night of the robbery, was Antonio, or Beechnut, as the boys more commonly called him. In order to explain how he came to be there, we must go back a little in our narrative, and...
The person who came in so suddenly to help the boys extinguish the fire under the corn-barn, on the night of the robbery, was Antonio, or Beechnut, as the boys more commonly cal...
14. CHAPTER VII.--THE GHOST'S WALK.While Esther sleeps, and while Esther wakes, it is still wet weather down at the place in Lincolnshire. The rain is ever falling, drip, drip, drip, by day and night, upon the br...
13. CHAPTER VI.--QUITE AT HOME.The day had brightened very much, and still brightened as we went westward. We went our way through the sunshine and the fresh air, wondering more and more at the extent of the...
12. CHAPTER V.--A MORNING ADVENTURE.Although the morning was raw, and although the fog still seemed heavy--I say, seemed, for the windows were so encrusted with dirt, that they would have made Midsummer sunshine d...
10. CHAPTER XVIII.Early the next day Randal Leslie was in the luxurious business-room of Baron Levy. How unlike the cold Doric simplicity of the statesman's library! Axminster carpets three inche...
4. CHAPTER XII."Let the carriage go to the Clarendon," said Harley to his servant; "I and Mr. Oran will walk to town. Leonard, I think you would rejoice at an occasion to serve your old friend...
2. CHAPTER X.The next morning Harley appeared at breakfast. He was in gay spirits, and conversed more freely with Violante than he had yet done. He seemed to amuse himself by attacking all s...
6. CHAPTER XIV.But Parliament had met. Events that belong to history had contributed yet more to weaken the administration. Randal Leslie's interest became absorbed in politics; for the stake...
8. CHAPTER XVI.Baron Levy did not execute his threat of calling on Egerton the next morning. Perhaps he shrank from again meeting the flash of those indignant eyes. And, indeed, Egerton was to...
9. CHAPTER XVII.It was past midnight when Audley Egerton summoned Randal. The statesman was then alone, seated before his great desk, with its manifold compartments, and engaged on the task of...
5. CHAPTER XIII.Some days have passed by. Leonard and Beatrice di Negra have already made friends. Harley is satisfied with his young friend's report. He himself has been actively occupied. He...
11. CHAPTER XIX.When a clever man resolves on a villainous action, he hastens, by the exercise of his cleverness, to get rid of the sense of his villainy. With more than his usual alertness, Ra...
7. CHAPTER XV.But not on the threatened question was that eventful campaign of Party decided. The government fell less in battle than skirmish. It was one fatal Monday--a dull question of fin...
3. CHAPTER XI.Leonard entered on the scene, and joined the party in the garden. The Countess, perhaps to please her son, was more than civil--she was markedly kind to him. She noticed him mor...