Category: Short Stories
COPYRIGHT, 1916, 1917, BY THE REPUBLIC PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC. COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY THE AMERICAN RED CROSS SOCIETY COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY THE OUTLOOK COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY P. F. COLLIER’S SONS
We stared into each other’s eyes, trying to guess each other’s thoughts. Every one in Belgium knows that the German army sows its informers everywhere. We could not even trust e...
2. Part 2“I tell you, sir,” he interrupted his story to observe, “in dealing with women tell ’em the truth first pop. If you love ’em, tell ’em so. Lies is all right in dealing man to ma...
7. Part 7“‘_Mais, mon père,’ j’ai dit_.... The devil! I forget always and speak French. That morning I was very angry, so I slid down the banisters and shrieked with the top of my breath...
4. Part 4“Monsieur, it was the mood of the confessional, was it not? And this man was indeed an instrument of God. Do you blame me that I heard his confession, and that I gave him comfor...
1. Part 1COPYRIGHT, 1916, 1917, BY THE REPUBLIC PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC. COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY THE AMERICAN RED CROSS SOCIETY COPYRIGHT, 19...
6. Part 6“And now, when St. Peter is tired, the soul of Father Guido sits in the chair beside the little gate to welcome newcomers, as he used to do in the monastery, and he is kind to t...
3. Part 3McTeague stared as if he were just recovering from a trance, shook himself clumsily, and muttered through the “Marseillaise”: “Strange, isn’t it, how artistic these Belgians are...
8. Part 8A white crane beside the landing-place awoke, flapped his wings, and flew slowly off. Stately men and beautiful women thronged the quay and looked down curiously as the boat gra...