Category: Short Stories
A DELAYED HERITAGE THE FOLLY OF WISDOM CRUMBS A FOUR-FOOTED FAITH AND A TWO A MATTER OF SYSTEM ANGELUS THE APPLE OF HER EYE A MUSHROOM OF COLLINGSVILLE THAT ANGEL BOY THE LADY IN BLACK THE SAVING OF DAD MILLIONAIRE MIKE'S THANKSGIVING WHEN MOTHER FELL ILL THE GLORY AND THE SAC...
A DELAYED HERITAGE THE FOLLY OF WISDOM CRUMBS A FOUR-FOOTED FAITH AND A TWO A MATTER OF SYSTEM ANGELUS THE APPLE OF HER EYE A MUSHROOM OF COLLINGSVILLE THAT ANGEL BOY THE LADY I...
2. Chapter 2There was no possibility of quieting Jason after that, and the days that followed were hard for all concerned. If he had an ache he was terrified; if he did not have one, he was...
3. Chapter 3"It looks very well now, but you should see it in winter," retorted Kate. "Great, bare, snake-like things all over the--now, don't cudgel your brains to bring 'plates' or 'crumb...
4. Chapter 4With a muttered something that the righteously indignant pretty girl could not hear, Jasper Hawkins thrust his money into his pocket and rushed blindly away from the pipe counte...
5. Chapter 5"An Angelus?--me?" continued the woman scornfully. "And where? The dish-pan?--the wash-tub?--the chicken-yard? A fine Angelus, that! And yet"--Hephzibah dropped to her knees aga...
6. Chapter 6At the end of the ten minutes, Herbert's friend rose to his feet and said that he must go. He added that he would come again, if he might; and to Miss Raymond he said very low--...
7. Chapter 7"Oh, I say, marm, I think it's bully of yer ter let me an' Bones come," he began sheepishly. "It looked 's if our case 'd hang fire till the crack o' doom; there wa'n't no one t...
8. Chapter 8"Ho!" he laughed. "Don't you worry. Dad always nails folks--never misses hittin' 'em on the head, either," he added, in reckless triumph, confident that there was nothing "dad"...
9. Chapter 9"No, folks don't have company every day," repeated the Girl softly; and into the longing eyes opposite she threw, before she went away, one look such as only the dearest girl in...
10. Chapter 10"John, I suppose we can take this," said she, in a low voice, reluctantly laying a little pile of silver on the desk; "there's just ten dollars there." Then she recoiled in terr...
11. Chapter 11"Yes, yes, I see, I see," murmured Mrs. Clayton, and signaled to Ethel to hurry into the kitchen and give the alarm to the cook. "Then you--you did n't write?"
12. Chapter 12"Surely we have money enough--and I don't know how we could spend it better," he continued rapidly; "and with plenty of help for you--there 's nothing to hinder turning ourselve...
13. Chapter 13"But, Polly Ann, it's only the 22d. I ought not to be that--yet! It never comes until the 26th, and I 'm prepared for it then. Sarah Bird comes Christmas Day, you know."