Miss Fairfax of Virginia: A Romance of Love and Adventure Under the Palmettos

Porto Rico as a territory of the progressive American republic will soon be transformed--while advancing with giant strides along the material road that may lead to statehood, t...

"Still in Dublin--why not, my boy? This is about as comfortable a berth as one could find, and I shall only desert it when stern duty calls me across the big pond. Whatever poss...

While Owen had doubtless encountered many rude shocks during his adventurous life he never had such a staggering blow dealt him as when this beauty from the Antilles so perempto...

Evidently Roderic Owen was disturbed by this meeting more than he would have cared to confess. When ghosts that are supposed to have been laid for all time come back to haunt us...

The genial summer sun had long since dropped behind the Irish hills, and the glowing lights of old Dublin were set like rare jewels upon the dark bosom of mother earth when Rode...

The news which Captain Beven communicated almost in a whisper to Roderic had as startling an effect upon that gentleman as though the guns of the battery that frowned upon their...

When Roderic Owen saw the look of deep concern on his cousin's face give way to a radiant expression as he entered the door of the hotel, his heart reproached him.

He had entered upon his duties of the day with a vim, desirous of closing his accounts so that he might get away on the next morning, if Cleo and her captain were willing.

Doubtless such inveterate gamesters might have found some satisfaction in Roderic's position when, upon turning from the friendly balcony he pitched himself and his fortunes thr...

At any rate he believed in a quick and masterly attack, whereby the enemy might be demoralized, providing said enemy chanced to be inferior to him in power or endurance.

The old Porto Rican dignitary quickly recovered his speech--indeed, it was seldom he could be found in a position where his vocal organs suffered a relapse, since it was almost...

At first Roderic only met with disappointment, for while people were continually passing, and some even went in and out of Senor Pedro's little shop, none upon whom his observat...

It was possible to make a bee line almost due south-west, stopping at the Azores on the way; or they could follow the plan adopted by Spain in sending her ships of war across, h...

There was one remarkably good trait about Owen--he had a powerful will, and when he chose could concentrate all his abilities upon a certain subject, to the exclusion of everyth...

The battlements and towers of the old fortification stood up grimly against the clouded heavens when Roderic drew near--just as they had reared themselves for centuries, and loo...

Upon a stormy night, when the moon was utterly concealed by dark ragged masses of clouds that rolled up from the south in serried columns like an army advancing to battle, Roder...

Surrounded by a thousand mementoes of India as he was, in this quaint bungalow on the Rathmines road, Roderic Owen might well have been pardoned had he allowed imagination to ha...

Ordinarily it took considerable to surprise Jerome Wellington--he had such good control over his nervous system that he could take in a philosophical manner much that might have...

Desperate measures are only carried to a successful issue by heroic treatment, and no man was better equipped for this purpose than the American who dared enter San Juan while t...

Shackelford was a daring spirit, one of those Britons who have carried the flag into remote passes of the Indian border, and whom the desperate fortunes of war never daunt.

So Julio, instead of taking warning from the ease with which his assaults were turned aside, instead of calling upon his patron saint for protection should this master of the st...

Georgia had made some laughing remark at the haste shown in their departure--she knew the weakness of Don Porfidio, and rallied them on their readiness to seek the confines of t...

Inez, poor girl, had staggered back and seemed almost paralyzed--half crouching she leaned one hand against the wall for support, and with eyes distended by amazement and horror...

If anything were done to prevent a general alarm from going forth, it would have to come from him, since Leon was hardly in a position to attempt any aggressive act, having a wo...

Captain Beven had taken the precaution to make Spaniards out of his men and himself, in the expectation that such a conceit might avail to save Cleo future trouble; for such an...

In this fair city of the Conquistadors, where Ponce de Leon laid a foundation for the future Spanish colony, there may have been men who for various causes felt the heat of ange...

"Would it be presumptuous if I asked to know her name, Roderic--this girl of San Juan who risked so much to save your reputation if not your life? I feel under obligations to he...