Category: Short Stories

The eternal masculine

=The Eternal Masculine.= Illustrated _net_ $1.30 =The Militants.= Illustrated $1.50 =Bob and the Guides.= Illustrated $1.50 =Vive l’Empereur.= Illustrated $1.00 =The Counsel Assigned= _net_ .50 =The Courage of the Commonplace= _net_ .50 =The Lifted Bandage= _net_ .50 =The Perf...

Chapters

1. Part 1

=The Eternal Masculine.= Illustrated _net_ $1.30 =The Militants.= Illustrated $1.50 =Bob and the Guides.= Illustrated $1.50 =Vive l’Empereur.= Illustrated $1.00 =The Counsel Ass...

2. Part 2

The clear eyes met the man’s with frank, pleased surprise; Jack never got used to the astonishing goodness of people in wanting him about. “Why, we’ll do that with bells on, if...

3. Part 3

Bradlee went on: “It will advance the purpose if I mention who you all are. Jack, Mr. Howell is the president of the I. S. I. & O. Z. D.; Judge Carroll, whom I luckily caught in...

4. Part 4

“Don’t—don’t,” he howled; and then, as I slowed down, “I do dislike physical demonstration,” said Walter. And I gave him a dig that rounded his sentence up with a squeal.

5. Part 5

And around the corner of the pool, out of mischief, Mr. Spafford, mad with excitement, fished his first fish with squeals of rapture and of agony. I couldn’t see him, but I coul...

6. Part 6

And, sure enough, there it was, but so hidden in the branches on the left bank that no eyes but those big microscopes of Josef’s could have picked out the beast. The stream narr...

7. Part 7

Into Lac à la Poêle at the farther end, three miles away, flowed its largest inlet, where we meant to camp. Its course near the lake was all rapids; at the head of these rapids...

8. Part 8

“I do not comprehend—me, M’sieur,” Blanc went on, “but M’sieur Bob instructed me to say to M’sieur that M’sieur should say to the new messieurs—” He glanced about the circle mil...

9. Part 9

Two hundred yards down the lake, the “camp of the _messieurs_” stretched its log front of sixty feet. The lamplight shone ruddily through windows red-curtained, the door from th...

10. Part 10

“_Ah, oui, m’sieur_,” said Godin again. “The _m’sieur_ who was here last year, the strange _m’sieur_ who wished that he should go to New York to whistle—that _m’sieur_ sent agai...

11. Part 11

I looked at the heroine hard and long, and then I unlocked a drawer and took out an old photograph of another dark-eyed girl, and put them side by side and let myself dream how...

12. Part 12

“A miracle—yes, I think likely. But at the moment I strolled into the court-room because I was killing time till—Mercy!” The bishop jerked out his watch. “Nine minutes of eleven...

13. Part 13

“Let me tell you,” the young man begged. “Last night for me was—horrible. I was here to help my mother. I’d got tied up in that ghastly net, perfectly innocent of it all. My mot...

14. Part 14

And jeers arose from knowing ones. “They don’t sell eggs by the pound, you poor old idiot. Two dollars a box,” corrected Mr. Secretary Loomis, and Mrs. Ryder shook with laughter.

15. Part 15

There is a celebration at Yale the night before commencement day which turns the campus into a stage-setting of an unearthly play. The scenery is an orgy of light and shadow; th...

16. Part 16

At two he went out from it into the New Haven station—into a throng of fresh, boyish faces—with a sense of exhilaration. He rushed for a car and hung from a strap with enjoyment...

17. Part 17

Dick Elliot’s level black eyebrows drew into a frown. “I don’t know if we’d better talk about Carl to-night,” he said. “It’s a pretty melancholy subject to drag a visitor in on,...

18. Part 18

I could see the four soldierly lads, in their gray uniforms, as Captain Fitzhugh talked, in the bare, orderly room, and I could imagine how their jaws dropped as the inspired on...

19. Part 19

And all that day as he went about his regulated succession of duties, the thought went with him like a weight of cold lead of little Marcus crowing mirthlessly on a sick-bed, an...