The Strand Magazine
I remember noticing how pale his lips were as he hissed out through his clenched teeth: "Though I had to fight with a hundred men for you--though I had to do murder for your sake, you should be mine. In spite of your love for him, in spite of your hate for me, in spite of all...
I remember noticing how pale his lips were as he hissed out through his clenched teeth: "Though I had to fight with a hundred men for you--though I had to do murder for your sak...
6. Part 6In publishing these short sketches, based upon the numerous cases which my companion's singular gifts have made me the listener to, and eventually the actor in some strange dram...
4. Part 4"Certainly not. A little secret receptacle--big enough to receive this," said he, putting his hand in his side pocket and producing a square Morocco case, of a size to berth a b...
7. Part 7"My mind was instantly filled with suspicion. I rushed upstairs to make sure that she was not in the house. As I did so I happened to glance out of one of the upper windows, and...
11. Part 11Members of the Parliament of 1868 in the House to-day, seated on back benches above or below the gangway, are Colonel Gourley, inconsolable at the expenditure on Royal yachts; M...
9. Part 9And the inhabitants of "Babies' Castle" congregate on the steps of their home. We are saying "Good-bye." "Jim Crow" is held up to the window inside, and little Ernest, the blind...
2. Part 2After he had been up there about ten minutes trying to mend the escape-valve, so that we could control it from the car, a puff of wind came and overturned the balloon completely...
3. Part 3"But, my dear sir," said the Public Prosecutor, "whoever would have expected to see you in shooting costume in the house of the brigand's cousin! We have given you rather a bad...
8. Part 8Yes, these little mites arrive at Stepney somewhat strangely at times. A child was sent from Newcastle in a hamper. It bore a small tablet on the wicker basket which read: "To D...
10. Part 10"Tell him that we are ready to follow him," said Denviers to Hassan; then turning to me he whispered: "Harold, watch your chance when we are before this motionless nigger whom t...
5. Part 5"He's under the spell of some sort of mania," continued the captain; "he believes he's commissioned to present a diamond to the Queen; possibly picked up a bit of stuff in the s...
12. Part 12But one day it leaked out that the Idea was _not_ the King's but the Prime Minister's. It would not have been known but for the Prime Minister having taken offence at the refusa...