Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
The College of Physicians and Surgeons, or the “P. & S.,” as it is usually called, had just graduated a large class of promising young doctors, and the morning after the commencement exercises the big building looked deserted. As Dr. Reginald Brookes, a handsome young man of t...
“Oh, the doctor isn’t the only pebble on the beach,” went on Bert, gayly. “There are others—Mr. Ray and myself, for instance! Of course, I don’t claim to be ‘in it’ just now exa...
5. CHAPTER V.“You have been here twenty-four hours now,” said the nurse very quietly, “but we consider you marvelously lucky to have escaped as you did. Fortunately, that horseless carriage...
9. CHAPTER IX.“Big Belle, the Confidence Queen,” was a very versatile woman. At liberty, she was noted for the variety of her accomplishments, and in prison walls she was equally useful both...
10. CHAPTER X.“I am nicely settled,” wrote Greenaway, “and would be perfectly happy, but my sweetheart has thrown me over—jilted me—to be honest. Of course you will think that if I can talk o...
7. CHAPTER VII.“My dear brother has had a bitter experience,” she said, “for, like many a thoughtless youth he became enamored with a young girl while he was a boy at college, and without any...
4. CHAPTER IV.“I am sure I hope you do not think ill of me,” he said, politely. “I was only taking your sister for a little outing. She is as safe with me as she would be with her own father.”
13. CHAPTER XIII.“Gently, men!” she cried as a couple of convicts lifted the pine coffin. “Remember that all are not so accustomed to these sights as we are, and this poor creature was once a be...
2. CHAPTER II.“Mr. Sands is out to lunch, sir, won’t be back for half an hour,” said the boy, respectfully, “but Miss Marlowe has the copy; shall I tell her to bring it?”
3. CHAPTER III.“It is very strange,” she said to herself. “Mr. Atherton is not in the habit of taking his typewriter to lunch with him, and I have been here two years and never received an inv...
6. CHAPTER VI.It was Reginald Brookes who sent a carriage for Marion on the day that she was allowed to leave the Chambers St. Hospital to return for a few days to the little flat in Harlem.
1. CHAPTER I.The College of Physicians and Surgeons, or the “P. & S.,” as it is usually called, had just graduated a large class of promising young doctors, and the morning after the commenc...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Two days later Marion was on her way back to Charity Hospital. She had been absent from duty for a week, but they had all heard of her injury and been most kind and sympathetic....
12. CHAPTER XII.Dr. Reginald Brookes had given his last order for the night, and as he left the Prison Hospital he bent his steps almost involuntarily toward the warden’s office. Some way or ot...
11. CHAPTER XI.The tragedy of the “vitriol patient’s” death was almost a tragedy of two cities—the great city of New York, where crime is conceived and fostered and the smaller city on Blackwe...