A Princess of Mars

Chapter 3 My Advent On Mars

I opened my eyes upon a strange and weird landscape. I knew that I was on Mars; not once did I question either my sanity or my wakefulness. I was not asleep, no need for pinching here; my inner consciousness told me as plainly that I was upon Mars as

A Princess of Mars

Chapter 2 The Escape Of The Dead

A sense of delicious dreaminess overcame me, my muscles relaxed, and I was on the point of giving way to my desire to sleep when the sound of approaching horses reached my ears. I attempted to spring to my feet but was horrified to discover that my muscles refused to

A Princess of Mars

Chapter 1 On The Arizona Hills

I am a very old man; how old I do not know. Possibly I am a hundred, possibly more; but I cannot tell because I have never aged as other men, nor do I remember any childhood. So far as I can recollect I have always been a man, a

A Princess of Mars

Foreword

In submitting Captain Carter’s strange manuscript to you in book form, I believe that a few words relative to this remarkable personality will be of interest. My first recollection of Captain Carter is of the few months he spent at my father’s home in Virginia, just prior to

Lord Lister

Chapter 6 Raffles Reaches His Goal

A magnificent company had gathered at the railway king's. Mrs. Hundley was also present. She wished to prove to the world that she was a stranger to her husband's crime, and had placed herself under the protection of Raffles, who was also her host. Newton had

Lord Lister

Chapter 5 The Failed Assassination Attack

Hundley, meanwhile, had come home in his car in a boundless rage and had summoned his servant José, a negro of extraordinary physical strength and size, into his bedroom. “You have a job to do for me today,” said Hundley to the black man. The Negro's eyes looked

Lord Lister

Chapter 4 The End Of A Marriage By Calculation

It was already dawn when Raffles and Charly Brand arrived home. The secretary wondered at his friend's silence. He sat quietly, lost in thought, before the fire, and made no apparent move to go to bed. Charly Brand did not bother him. He sat down opposite him and

Lord Lister

Chapter 3 The Theft

Bird had arrived at his stately home on Fifth Avenue in Central Park and went into his study, where a young man of about thirty was waiting for him. “Are you still up, Charly?” he asked, offering his friend his hand. “I have read so far, and also written some

Lord Lister

Chapter 2 The Party

There was an evening party at the home of Mr. Palmer, the president of the distinguished New York Hamilton Club. Dinner was already over and the ladies and gentlemen were in lively conversation. "A delightful evening," said Palmer to the banker Hundley. "I am glad that our

Lord Lister

Chapter 1 The Mysterious Burglar

For several weeks New York had been in great commotion. Every day, the newspapers reported burglaries committed on Fifth Avenue at the homes of millionaires whose villas were located in Central Park. In vain did the most astute detectives rack their brains to discover the mysterious purpose of these burglaries.

Little sweetheart

Chapter 5 Poor little thing

“I hope you are well, mother?” the young man said, kissing her tenderly, and as the light fell on her face one saw features still handsome in spite of the silver hair that set off the blackness of her large eyes. “Yes, I am well. And you, my dear son?

Little sweetheart

Chapter 4 Unacquainted

Norman de Vere was by no means unacquainted with the passionate and jealous temper of his wife, having experienced its evil effects many times during the two years in which he had been her husband. But her present outburst was so unexpected and so reasonless that he almost recoiled in

Little sweetheart

Chapter 3 A Full October Moon

Twenty-four hours later it was night in Jacksonville—night, all lovely with countless stars and a full October moon. “The light of many starsQuivered in tremulous softness on the air,And the night breeze was singing here and there.” Before the gates of a palatial home, whose white walls glimmered

Little sweetheart

Chapter 2 Sweet’art tired

Sweetheart herself remained quite silent and pensive for a moment after her little song, as if it had touched some chord of sadness in her heart. Then she nestled her curly head softly against Norman de Vere’s broad breast. “Sweet’art tired, Sweet’art s’eepy,” she lisped in

Little sweetheart

Chapter 1 The baby

The smoking-car was draughty and ill-smelling; the three commercial travelers, with their cards and whisky, noisy to the point of rudeness, and the view from the windows of the slowly moving train was not interesting to one who had gone over the route to Jacksonville a dozen times before. The

Arthur's Inheritance

CHAPTER 7 Lady Mary

THE following morning Arthur was in Mr. Brading's room, which adjoined the accountant's department, when one of the messengers brought a card and handed it to Mr. Brading. A frown contracted the gentleman's face as his eye fell upon the name it bore. "

Arthur's Inheritance

Chapter 6 An Unexpected Meeting

ARTHUR was received by his friend and Mrs. Brading most kindly and courteously, without any tinge of either patronage or condescension, which some words of his elder sister had almost led him to expect. He found that Mr. Brading, if he was not to be reckoned among the county families,

Arthur's Inheritance

Chapter 5 An Invitation

"A LETTER for me!" exclaimed Arthur, as he took his seat at the breakfast-table next morning and saw the letter beside his plate. But Molly came in the next minute, before the letter could be opened. "Arthur, I have thought of a plan to get over the

Arthur's Inheritance

Chapter 4 How To Make Ends Meet

"THERE'S an awful lot of letters this time, Mr. Bristow," said Arthur one morning as the chief accountant entered the office where he was busy sorting them. "Ah, there is a heavy post!" remarked that gentleman. "You must be careful, Murray, that none

Arthur's Inheritance

Chapter 3 Mrs. Murray

"OH, I say, you girls have no idea what a great place ours is! I had to go all over it this morning, and Jack came to show me the way." This was Arthur's greeting when he walked into the dining-room after his second day'

Arthur's Inheritance

Chapter 2 A Start In Life

"I SAY, young man, what do you mean by this; coming along the street at the pace of a steam-engine? I've a good mind to call the police." Arthur had collided with an elderly gentleman at the corner of the street, nearly knocking him down, and

Arthur's Inheritance

Chapter 1 A County Family

"WELL, I've done it, and if there should be a row, you girls must help me to get out of it with the Mater." The speaker was a tall, well-grown lad about fifteen. His two sisters might have been a year older and a year younger,

Guy Falconer

Chapter 5 Daily Bread

AFTER many a weary walk in search of apartments cheap enough to suit her altered circumstances, and wholesome enough for her country plants, so suddenly transferred to a new atmosphere, Mrs. Falconer at last engaged three rooms within easy distance from one of the parks, and then began to consider

Guy Falconer

Chapter 4 A Lady Of The Olden Time

A RETROSPECTIVE glance at the antecedents of fair Mistress Hazelwood peeps into her old-fashioned, hospitable home at Daisy-Meade, where she fulfilled the mission of one of the bright spirits that seem sent into the world to round off sharp corners, pad rough edges, fit in curious angles, and sheath drawn

Guy Falconer

Chapter 3 The Tomb Beneath The Cedars

THE last evening before the removal of the family from the Moat, the moon shone out brightly at intervals from a cloudy sky, touching with silvery light the gables and turrets of the mansion, the old church tower, and the edges of the tombstones that nestled amidst the grass and