Category: Novels
He was a misshapen thing, bulking a black blotch in the night at the entrance of the dark alleyway--like some lurking creature in its lair. He neither stood, nor kneeled, nor sat--no single word would describe his posture--he combined all three in a sort of repulsive, formless...
"Hiram," said Madison to himself, "is a man of many parts, and the most useful man I have ever known. Hiram, by reflected glory, will some day become famous." On the slate he re...
15. Chapter 15But Helena did not answer--only very slowly she raised her head. And his hands on her shoulders tightened, and he was drawing her gently toward him. Then he bent his head until...
10. Chapter 10They rose noiselessly from the bench, and slipped quickly behind the trellis. Toward them, walking slowly came the two figures, Helena leaning on Thornton's arm. Thornton was ta...
8. Chapter 8"I know how you feel--felt just the same myself for a bit," said he quietly. "But now look here, you've got to pull yourselves together--there's nothing to be afraid of. It's na...
11. Chapter 11"I'll tell you," said Madison, speaking again as abruptly as he had stopped. "It's simple enough. There's a westbound train due in an hour or so--we'll couple the private car on...
9. Chapter 9"I get your idea," said Madison to himself--while he gazed at Thornton in pained surprise; "but there'll never be more than the day's catch in the box at a time, though of cours...
3. Chapter 3The train left the platform--and left quite as uninviting a perspective on the other side of the track as had previously greeted Madison's restricted view. But now the man who h...
5. Chapter 5Long and painfully the Patriarch studied it, anxiously deciphering the words that he had never seen before, anxious to know all and whatever this might tell him about his niece-...
12. Chapter 12They appeared to be going a little faster now, too--undoubtedly the road was getting better. What was there to be afraid of? It didn't make it any more pleasant for Thornton, wh...
6. Chapter 6"Gee!" he muttered. "Dis has de gape-wagon skun a mile. Wish I could pass de hat--I'd make de killin' of me young life. Pipe de hydrogen hair on de gran'mother wid de sparkler o...
1. Chapter 1He was a misshapen thing, bulking a black blotch in the night at the entrance of the dark alleyway--like some lurking creature in its lair. He neither stood, nor kneeled, nor sa...
13. Chapter 13The red glow from the ruby ring had vanished--the man had risen from his seat and was placing something in the box on top of the ring--Madison's mind subconsciously absorbed the...
16. Chapter 16"Yes!" he cried. "Yes; to make a home for you, to marry you if only you love me still, to live in God's own sight and hold you as a sacred gift--Helena! Helena!"--his arms went...
14. Chapter 14It was fear now--fear--staggering, appalling him. He was facing something--_something_--his brain did not seem to define it--something that was cold and stern and immutable, tha...
2. Chapter 2"What's the matter with you all?" he demanded sarcastically. "You look as though your faces pained you! What's the matter with you? You're bright enough ordinarily, Helena, and,...
7. Chapter 7No whispering breeze stirred the young leaves in the trees; in the stillness of the afternoon came only the heavy, pulsing throb of Nature's breathing. One hundred, two, three h...