The Golden Fleece: A Romance

By nine o’clock in the morning, Professor Meschines and Harvey Freeman had ridden up to the general’s ranch, equipped for the expedition. The general’s preparations were not yet...

Having mounted their steeds, the two sanguinary young gentlemen rode onwards, side by side, but in silence; for the souls of those who have resolved to slay each other find smal...

General Trednoke’s household went early to bed. As there was more accommodation in the old house than sufficed for its present inhabitants, it followed that each of them had a r...

The professor crossed one long, lean leg over the other, and punched down the ashes in his pipe-bowl with the square tip of his middle finger. The thermometer on the shady veran...

General Trednoke’s house was built by Spanish missionaries in the sixteenth century; and in its main features it was little altered in three hundred years. In a climate where th...

Two horsemen, one of whom led a third horse, carrying a pack-saddle, had reached the borders of the desert just as the earthquake began. When the first shock came, they were rid...

The Southern Pacific Railway passes, today, not far from the site of General Trednoke’s ranch. But the events now to be narrated occurred some years before the era of transconti...

As it was still some hours before dawn, and Freeman was too weak to travel, it was decided to encamp beside the pyramid till the following evening, and then make the trip across...