The Gilded Man: A Romance of the Andes

As for the girls in Andrew's school, it was impossible to think of them except as so many varieties of human tyranny. They were more perplexing, as a rule, certainly more unmana...

"Once, we who live here now shut out from all the rest of the world, were free. We overran all the plains and mountains of Bogota, our rule extended to the warmer countries on e...

In a way General Herran felt responsible for the safety of the man with whom he had been traveling, the more so that this man was a foreigner, belonging to a nation whose citize...

"I won't take your old pills," was the spirited reply. "They nearly did for poor Mr. Andrew. I think they may kill him yet. There is nothing the matter with me. I want to get ou...

There was ample warrant for Una's enthusiasm. From the stifling atmosphere of the tunnel the explorers had entered a great rock chamber that widened as they advanced, opening up...

Unable to hide her fears, Una rose and moved away from them. The boards of the well worn floor creaked harshly as she walked to the far end of the room. Pausing at the door, she...

A sigh of relief escaped them. Hoisting heavy weights was not much to their taste and they were glad the task was over. Then they rubbed their eyes, half expecting to see someth...

At first the two rebels were met with a flourish of pikes and angry cries that boded ill for their safety. When they succeeded in making themselves heard, however, explaining wh...

Now, "embolador," although it is a word familiarly used in Bogota to designate a bootblack, has for its first meaning "one who puts balls on the tips of a bull's horns," a thing...

"I hesitated about following this unknown man into so strange a place," continued Andrew; "but his manner was so perfectly courteous and friendly--and then I thought that behind...

Two dreams have persistently haunted the imagination of man since dreams began. You find them in all mythologies, and, perhaps most dramatically, in the Arabian Nights: the drea...

On both sides there was evident uneasiness; and when Anitoo, in a tone that sounded disagreeably like a command, told the explorers that they could not continue their tour of th...

And now the outlines of the distant mountain top began to assume a greater definiteness than before. Objects just below this furthest summit loomed up spectrally out of the shad...

The three women turned to the open lattice window at the other end of the portico. Objects in the room beyond were at first indistinct, but as the eye became accustomed to the d...

"If you forget a thing, you lose just that much of yourself, don't you? When you sleep, you enter a world of dreams. In that world you think, speak, go through a set of vivid ex...

"Ah, well, Senor," she said with a low laugh; "every queen, I fancy, should have at least one subject. And now--supposing that I am this queen you talk of--what is it you want o...

"A restatement of my theory may clear things up. Through a combination of certain circumstances, exerting upon him a peculiar influence, David is living again in an environment...

The latter had withdrawn to the far side of David's couch, whence he had watched, with alternate amusement and contempt, all that took place between these two. He now advanced,...

Whatever Sajipona meant by her enigmatical words, the fact was there, the living, moving likeness of Raoul Arthur, in the light-woven tapestry at Una's feet. Eagerly she watched...

But, queen or not, Una was ready to pin her faith to this strange being who had accosted them in so unexpected a manner. It was useless even to attempt an explanation of how an...

Doctor Miranda was right about Andrew. By the time he had finished moving his party and their luggage from the stifling railroad shed to the cool courtyard of Honda's principal...

In any part of the world except Colombia the progress of this steamer up the river on this occasion would have been followed with the liveliest interest from one end of the coun...

"Yes, that is it! No one was there--except Radium, the influence from the great globe hanging above us. Here, you see, it does many more things than it does in your outside worl...

Thus, vaguely, did this vision of ancient riches appear to Una. Gold and jewels, robes and ornaments wrought by an art that had been lost long since--the rich color, the glitter...