Category: Short Stories
In my work here at Pelham Bay Camp with our wounded from abroad, with our sick boys who did not get “over there,” and with the well but often lonely men, who frequent our library, I have discovered a distinct need for some collection of the best stories, especially adapted to...
In my work here at Pelham Bay Camp with our wounded from abroad, with our sick boys who did not get “over there,” and with the well but often lonely men, who frequent our librar...
2. Part 2“He told me how fond they had been of each other until they got accomplishments an’ began to put up the price o’ themselves. He said that in their own estimation they had riz in...
3. Part 3But in spite of his confident bearing he felt a great uneasiness. The _Nebraska_ seemed upon the point of diving; he judged she must be settling very fast, and wondered that the...
4. Part 4This was Jo’s household, and he was the nominal head of it. But it was an empty title. The three women dominated his life. They weren’t consciously selfish. If you had called th...
5. Part 5And he was lonesome. He was very lonesome. So he searched about in his mind and brought from the dim past the memory of the luxuriously furnished establishment of which he used...
6. Part 6When Bost came to Siwash he succeeded a line of coaches who had been telling the fellows to get down low and hit the line hard, and had been showing them how to do it very patie...
7. Part 7“This is awful,” said Lambert, the manager of the team. “He’s taken Bost literally again--the chump. He’ll run till he lands up in those pine woods again. And that ball cost the...
8. Part 8She named them, and he mused darkly, his eyes on her face. “I reckon I can’t wait to make their acquaintance. I’m going on down the Green River to-day. I’m sorry to miss ’em. Th...
9. Part 9The sheriff withdrew toward the door. “You’re both lying,” he remarked without heat, “but it don’t matter. We’ll mighty soon overhaul this man on the horse--whoever he is. If yo...
10. Part 10The outlaw was ready. “I would send a part of the men with the horses down the valley to grass and I’d wait here till Miss Mansfield is able to ride.”
11. Part 11“To hell with you an’ your rantin’, dog-eared redskins!” cried Rea. “I’ve run agin a man of my own kind, a man of my own country, an’ I’m goin’ with him.” With this he thrust as...
12. Part 12“It seemed to take the conductor by surprise, and he faced round towards the stateroom and let the lantern slip off his arm, and it dropped onto the floor and went out; I rememb...
13. Part 13The lovers parted with a long embrace. “You are not going, too?” said the Duchess, as she saw Mr. Oakhurst apparently waiting to accompany him. “As far as the cañon,” he replied...
14. Part 14I runs my arm around her neck and raises her head, gentle, and breaks the bag of flaxseed with the other hand; and as easy as I could I bends over and slips three or four of the...
15. Part 15The man against the counter had lost nothing of the scene. Billy’s denial, his hesitation, his half-truth all looked suspicious to him. With one swift, round sweep of the arm he...
16. Part 16So the Nightingale pressed closer against the thorn, and the thorn touched her heart, and a fierce pang of pain shot through her. Bitter, bitter was the pain, and wilder and wil...