Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
Police Sergeant Hardy stood near the Boylston Street entrance to the Fens, his back toward the hundred and fifteen acres of park land which it was his duty to guard, his good-natured face overspread by a smile, as he watched a young lady taking a bicycle lesson in a secluded w...
The sergeant was intensely amused and interested in the French priest. He obtained a few days’ leave from his duties, and occupied himself in showing his guest the sights of an...
11. CHAPTER XI.Mrs. Hardy was afraid that Eugene was going to be ill. Several times while giving her an account of his visit to the Mannings he relapsed into long, troubled silences.
3. CHAPTER III.As he sauntered about the park day after day, his vigilant eyes going hither and thither over roads and foot-paths to see that no trespassers loitered in them and defaced the gr...
2. CHAPTER II.The next morning, while Sergeant Hardy was standing near the main entrance to the Fens on Commonwealth Avenue, he was glad to see in the distance the figures of the two nurses a...
1. CHAPTER I.Police Sergeant Hardy stood near the Boylston Street entrance to the Fens, his back toward the hundred and fifteen acres of park land which it was his duty to guard, his good-na...
9. CHAPTER IX.The sergeant usually spent his evenings at home. All day long he was on his feet, and it was a pleasure to him when he came in at night to settle himself in a comfortable armcha...
7. CHAPTER VII.The next morning Eugene was ill. He was not a very strong boy, and he had had more excitement and mental anxiety during the last few days than his slender frame and sensitive so...
4. CHAPTER IV.“Good-morning,” said Eugene with a bright look at him. “Virtue Ann had sweeping to do; and she says that I am now sufficiently old to go out unattended, though it is not the cus...
12. CHAPTER XII.On the evening that Eugene left Boston, Mrs. Hardy had received a telegram announcing the serious illness of her aunt; and accompanied by her husband she had at once left her ho...
6. CHAPTER VI.Bridget had gone home. Virtue Ann was putting on the table the bread and chocolate that was to compose Eugene’s frugal meal, and the boy himself was sitting in a dull fashion by...
5. CHAPTER V.“And sure that’s a boss place,” Bridget was saying. “You’d do well to jump at the chance, Virtue Ann. Four girls kept, and you only to do part of the up-stairs work; and it’s lu...
8. CHAPTER VIII.“Then, you mustn’t scold me,” said Virgie gayly. “O Bridget! there is a big, big fly with blue wingses. You stand still like a mousie while I catch it, ’cause if you runned you...