Masterpieces of Adventure—Oriental Stories

In these volumes the word _adventure_ has been used in its broadest sense to cover not only strange happenings in strange places but also love and life and death--all things tha...

He came no more forth that day. The army was marshalled by the princes, and the rebels were routed with great slaughter; but Yuentsoong never more wielded sword. "He pined to de...

"Nonsense!" She gave him a look that had more in it than the tone in which she added: "Please do not. I shall be perfectly safe with four servants. You can tell them not to let...

A score of years ago there was a man in North Borneo, whose name does not matter--a man who had the itch of travel in him, and loved untrodden places for their own sake. He unde...

Half a dozen men, however, were apparently busy in the performance of some task on a spot just behind O'Hara's head, for though they frequently paid visits of ceremony to the li...

He who has travelled in Spain in the true way in which the country ought to be travelled,--sojourning in its remote provinces, rambling among the rugged defiles and secluded val...

Some of the less hardy require as much as six months between visits. But for the manager and his assistants there are no such intervals. They are on the spot, and week by week,...

"One thing more," Grief said. "I can do even better. If you lose, two years of your time are mine--naturally without wages. Nevertheless, I'll pay you wages. If your work is sat...

"'Gintlemen, dhrunkards, short-card min, and sojers! 'Tis me pleasure to inthrojuce to yez me distinguished frind and contimporary, Mister Samoory, av Japan, who has confidentia...

"And then, startlingly clear and vibrant, above the din of the yelling savages, above the shouts of the men and the banging of the Springfields, rose in a foreign tongue a stran...