Category: Short Stories
Skates, Skis, and a Saphead William Wallace Cook 71 The Basket-Ball Boss Leslie W. Quirk 85 Clem Frobisher’s Man-sized Job Allan Hawkwood 99 The Shock Grant Trask Reeves 111 Cap’n Dan’s Son Bernard Teevan 119
Ballard and his friends had departed to the foot of the lake. Convinced of their going, Denis had taken a plunge in the creek and freshened himself, then had set about getting a...
10. CHAPTER IX.IT was a splendid day for the big race. There was not too much sun, for a soft mist hung in the air, tempering the light. But it was bright and comfortably warm, nevertheless. I...
12. CHAPTER IX.But he had received word of it before, Clancy had written to him about it. And it was the first subject that Clan took up, when he met Chip at the station on the latter’s return.
14. CHAPTER XI.THE pasty-faced youth who took a seat on the table and sat swinging his legs while he fished out of his pocket a gold-mounted cigarette case, angrily resented the imputation of...
11. CHAPTER VIII.THE shrewd eyes of Colonel Carson sparkled with a sly twinkle. He sat before his deep-throated fireplace, in his home in Carsonville. Into the room he had called his son Bully,...
4. CHAPTER III.FRANTICALLY, Stanley Downs searched all over the interior of the big car. It did not seem to be much damaged, although it was soaked with water and showed mud where it had struc...
19. CHAPTER XII.This was that Cowley was going to the foot of the lakes some time that same night to meet Bray. Presumably Cowley would not start until an hour or so before dawn. But what would...
5. CHAPTER IV.“I’M sorry nothing has been found of your money, Mr. Downs. But, to be frank, I don’t see how they could get it for you. Paper money was never meant to be soaked in water and us...
20. CHAPTER XIII.FROM the front of the shack, the lake was, of course, hidden by the intervening hill. Denis remembered that the presence of his canoe would warn Cowley if the latter arrived in...
18. CHAPTER XV.THE two men who sat at the table in the front room overlooking the icy lake were as sinister a pair as Bully Carson could have picked up anywhere, and they were not disposed to...
7. CHAPTER VI.“She’s put away upstairs, in her own little flat,” answered Dan, with his usual surly grin. “We are not showing her to everybody until the day of the race. Then some of them may...
8. CHAPTER VII.THE trial of the Thunderbolt was an entire success. As Stanley Downs had said, the car was tuned to perfection, while he, the driver, was as good as his machine. The two worked...
3. CHAPTER II.He did so. There were half a dozen stone steps from the wooden boat landing to the top of the wall. From there, it was a trip of some five hundred feet to the veranda of the hot...
6. CHAPTER V.IT was two days later when Victor Burnham, with a raincoat covering his ordinary raiment, and a peaked cap pulled well down over his brows, stood behind a big racing car in a ga...
21. CHAPTER XIV.He had been on a tremendous strain for the past three days, and the sleep which he had gained had been fitful and at odd intervals. He had drawn heavily on his splendid physique...
9. CHAPTER VIII.IT was when Stanley had turned off the main thoroughfare, with its electric lights and thronging promenaders, into a labyrinth of dark and small streets, that he realized he had...
2. CHAPTER I.REALLY there could be no question that the car had got away from her. Stanley Downs, driving his high-powered Archimedes down the winding mountain road, had noticed the girl eig...
13. CHAPTER X.“WHILE you were away,” Clan was saying to Chip, later, “I was tempted to put over a dictograph scheme that would have been great. I met a fellow down at the station who was agen...
17. CHAPTER XIV.“DEAR me! Dear me!” said Colonel Gunn, twisting his glasses about on his nose, as he stared in astonishment at the crumpled note which had been brought to him by the servant girl.
15. CHAPTER XII.An interminable time passed before anything occurred, and then Villum had to start it. The room was vacated, the lights were out, and it was deathly cold. Dickey had put up his...
16. CHAPTER XIII.THAT burglars had broken into Dickey’s, but had been frightened away by the constable, was the story that got over town. Gale was heard bragging of how courageously he had acted...
1. Volume IV CONTENTS FOR JANUARY 10, 1916 Number 3Skates, Skis, and a Saphead William Wallace Cook 71 The Basket-Ball Boss Leslie W. Quirk 85 Clem Frobisher’s Man-sized Job Allan Hawkwood 99 The Shock Grant Trask Reeves 111 Cap...