Category: Novels
CHAPTER I. PAGE 1 ” II. ” 15 ” III. ” 29 ” IV. ” 47 ” V. ” 58 ” VI. ” 69 ” VII. ” 78 ” VIII. ” 89 ” IX. ” 106 ” X. ” 117 ” XI. ” 129 ” XII. ” 142 ” XIII. ” 150 ” XIV. ” 162 ” XV. ” 175 ” XVI. ” 188 ” XVII. ” 203 ” XVIII. ” 218 ” XIX. ” 235 ” XX. ” 246 ” XXI. ” 259 ” XXII. ” 26...
“Don’t take the trouble to deny it,” he went on, with a faint sneer. “I know what most people think of me, perhaps with reason. But I am myself, not another; and so far, fear—di...
12. Part 12He continued to look at her as she sat in the soft radiance of the lamp-light, her head bowed, her slender hands, browned and roughened by the labors of sorrowful years, tightly...
3. Part 3“Say!” called Mr. Hewett; “hold on a minute!” Then, as Barbara paused, “This ’ere account’s been standin’ since long before your pa died. I’ve been pretty easy on you to date, b...
2. Part 2“Yes, dear,” said his sister absent-mindedly. She was drawing out the little round mahogany table. “I’m going to put on the pink china,” she announced, with a defiant toss of he...
16. Part 16“We’ll go up to the grand stand,” David proposed. “One of my horses is going to race,” he added magnificently, “and you shall bet on him. Would you like to? I’ll pay, of course,...
9. Part 9“To be gone five years,” he said thoughtfully. “Very well; we will finish this business at once. Let me advise you to attend to your taxes promptly hereafter; and if——”
15. Part 15“You wouldn’t care, would you?” he persisted, “if some old duffer had taken it into his noddle to do a good deed? Once we are married, I shan’t bother to unearth him, you’d bett...
5. Part 5“I can’t see why you should bring the boy into our affairs,” he said coldly. “But he can live with us—for the present, if you like. Then there is the Preston farm; as I’ve alrea...
8. Part 8“Planted t’ onions,” he went on, still addressing his observations to the horses, whose heads drooped sleepily toward the fresh-smelling ground, “this ’ere ten acres ’ll net, an...
13. Part 13“Poor old Peleg!” said one. “Them Prestons has kep’ him pretty busy cookin’ up excuses. An’ ef she marries Whitcomb I guess Peleg ’ll be up against it a while longer.”
11. Part 11“Eh—what?” he roused himself to say. He reached out and patted her hand. “Why be unhappy about anything—just now?” he murmured. He smiled dreamily into her eyes. “The dinner was...
6. Part 6“Don’t do that, Miss Barb’ry; please don’t!” pleaded Peg. “I won’t do him no real harm. I ain’t no-ways vicious, ner—ner low-down; an’ that little chap—— Why, Miss Barb’ry, me a...
14. Part 14“I understand, Mr. Jarvis,” assented the detective. “And I will tell you frankly that my own initial impressions—and I have learned to rely somewhat on first impressions as bein...
10. Part 10“You are,”—pursued David, “—or think you are—unable to move hand or foot for five years. Meanwhile you are waiting, waiting for a summons which may never come. Barbara, is there...
7. Part 7“Meanin’, of course, that you hold the lien on her prop’ty,” he hazarded. “But you don’t”—and he paused to chuckle to himself—“hold no lien on what she’s propos in’ to sell to t...
1. Part 1CHAPTER I. PAGE 1 ” II. ” 15 ” III. ” 29 ” IV. ” 47 ” V. ” 58 ” VI. ” 69 ” VII. ” 78 ” VIII. ” 89 ” IX. ” 106 ” X. ” 117 ” XI. ” 129 ” XII. ” 142 ” XIII. ” 150 ” XIV. ” 162 ” XV...
17. Part 17She was still thinking soberly rather than sorrowfully of David, when Jimmy dashed into the room, his yellow hair standing up around his rosy face like a halo as he pulled off h...