Keeban

The quick, quiet unlocking and then the closing of the hall door on the floor below told me that Jerry had come in; so I sat up, roused as I always was when I felt him about. He...

“That they did meet me; for there’s another me about, Steve; you know I’ve felt that. I know now he must be one of two things--either another personality living in me which turn...

Again he drew deep breath; then he struck his hands together. “I’ll cure her, Steve, by the only way. I’ll show her Keeban! But we’ve got to be careful--awfully, awfully careful...

“--he dyed his silver hairs twenty years back; and about the time the tango came in, he began pumping his face full of paraffin. Occasionally some of it slipped down in his chee...

“Yesterday at lunch,” Fred kept at me, “you asked me particularly about father’s engagements for last night; you asked whether Shirley would drive down to meet him. I told you s...

I went through it to an area between the shop and an old moved-over frame building. Some one--I didn’t know who--relieved the child in the shop, for she came out to me and led m...

So much I had gathered from Jerry during the afternoon. The actual go-getter in any society is in the small minority; he, or she, supports a host of hangers-on; it is only the a...

Now she meant to me, besides what she was herself, a chance for getting into touch again with all that world. I got to thinking particularly of her friend, Magellan, and looking...

“That was blob, too. But ninety was forty-seven and a half; eighty-nine opened at forty-five and lifted a half. Ninety-three in New York was fifty-five and was a half higher in...

Occasionally, but with rapidly lessening frequency, I wondered about George,--why he didn’t show up for supper and to what I’d left him with Dib. I ventured to ask Doris about him.

I had the note just after breakfast; and the _Times_ this morning told that Lord Strathon, for England, and F. L. Géroud, for France, were arriving on the _Majestic_ for immedia...

The last step on their ladder of reason was not difficult for my mind to ascend. I had spoiled their great scheme at the Sencort Trust; therefore now I was to be punished. Perha...

Its outer wall was not of glass; rather, it was not all glass, though there were two windows in it. No blinds were drawn before them but they were black from the steel shutters...

I’ve thought about that a lot, these days. My parents picked up Jerry and adopted him to “broaden” me and immediately set about the business of making him as much like ourselves...