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It was eleven o’clock at night, and young Marriott was locked into his room, cramming as hard as he could cram. He was a “Fourth…

Mother Frog’s Storms (An Australian Legend) Long ago in Australia, there lived an enormous green frog. The people called her Quork-Quork. She lived peacefully for…

The scene is a conservatory. Luxuriant tropical plants are seen looming through a greenish aquarium twilight, punctuated here and thereby the surprising pink of several…

A Defenseless Creature by Anton Chekhov IN spite of a violent attack of gout in the night and the nervous exhaustion left by it, Kistunov…

“Yes,” she said, from her seat in the dark corner, “I’ll tell you an experience if you care to listen. And, what’s more, I’ll tell…

An Alpine Divorce by Robert Barr In some natures, there are no half-tones; nothing but raw primary colors. John Bodman was a man who was…

“The most beautiful crime I ever committed,” Flambeau would say in his highly moral old age, “was also, by a singular coincidence, my last. It…

Aristide Valentin, Chief of the Paris Police, was late for his dinner, and some of his guests began to arrive before him. These were, however,…

The Corn People (A Creation Myth From Central America) Long, long ago the Life Givers began to make the world. They created mountains and made…

He was on his way from his bachelor flat to the club, a man of middle age with a slight stoop, and an expression of…

When the words ‘Not Guilty’ sounded through the crowded courtroom that dark December afternoon, Arthur Wilbraham, the great criminal KC, and leader for the triumphant…

It is generally supposed that people who live at home, good domestic people, who love tea and their arm-chairs, and who keep the parlour hearth-rug…