On the Stairs

In the year 1873, then, Johnny McComas was perfectly willing to stand to one side while Raymond Prince, surrounded by several of the fellows, came down, in his own negligent and...

Raymond went into the bank; not in due course, but rather more than a year later. After seeing some of his more advanced schoolfellows depart for Eastern colleges, after indulgi...

Little Albert's babyhood kept his mother a good deal at home--and by "home" I mean the house in which he had been born. His father's lessened interest in Europe (and his diminis...

Albert recovered in due season--a little more rapidly, it may be, than if he had stayed with his father, but not more completely. His education progressed, entering another phas...

Johnny McComas was still carrying on his business life and his home life in the suburb where he had married, when I came, finally, to make my first call on the domestic group of...

While Raymond was taking his course abroad, Johnny McComas was shaping his course at home. A colorless, unbiased statement--as it was meant to be; one which, despite the slight...

His domestic difficulty left behind, Raymond settled down to a middle-aged life of dignity and leisure--or attempted to. But the trial had rather shaken the dignity, and the sol...

Before leaving his house for good and all, Raymond spent a dismal fortnight in going over old papers--out-of-date documents which once had interested his father and grandfather,...