Story

It was in the days when drawing-rooms were dark, and filled with bric-a-brac. The darkness enabled the half-blinded visitor, coming in out of the bright…

Once upon a time there lived a magical silver bird known as the Kaha bird. She was beautiful and had a gigantic wingspan, but most…

“O, underneath the blood-red sun, No bloodier deed was ever done! Nor fiercer retribution sought The hand that first red ruin wrought.” This is the…

In some natures, there are no half-tones; nothing but raw primary colors. John Bodman was a man who was always at one extreme or the…

Once upon a time, two women met in the marketplace and began to argue about their husbands. “Now my husband is the biggest fool in…

I There was no clumsier looking fellow in church that Sunday morning than Antoine Bocaze-the one they called Tonie. But Tonie did not really care…

One early spring evening, St. Peter, disguised as he usually was when he walked the Earth, stopped at a large, properous farmhouse. The wife was…

Mildred Orme, seated in the snuggest corner of the big front porch of the Kraummer farmhouse, was as content as a girl need hope to…

I LACODIE stayed longer than was his custom in Mamzelle Fleurette’s little store that evening. He had been tempted by the vapid utterances of a…

Long ago atop a hill near Tipperary, a farmer grazed his cattle. The land was lush and green, and the cattle grazed contentedly. One night,…

Mrs. Baroda was a little provoked to learn that her husband expected his friend, Gouvernail, up to spend a week or two on the plantation.…

O one, looking into Silas Hickler’s cheerful round face, beaming with benevolence and wreathed in perpetual smiles, would have imagined him to be a criminal.…