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Robert Barr

Jennie Baxter, JournalistRobert Barr Jennie Baxter, Journalist CHAPTER I. JENNIE MAKES HER TOILETTE AND THE ACQUAINTANCE OF A PORTER Miss Jennie Baxter, with several final and dainty touches that put to rights her hat and dress—a little pull here and a pat there—regarded herself with some complac...

TeklaRobert Barr Tekla / A Romance of Love and War CHAPTER I THE EMPEROR ENTERS TREVES The Romans had long since departed, but their handiwork remained – a thin line laid like a whiplash across the broad country – a road. It extended northwestward from Frankfort and passed, as straight as might b...

A Chicago PrincessFrancis P. Barr A Chicago Princess CHAPTER I When I look back upon a certain hour of my life it fills me with wonder that I should have been so peacefully happy. Strange as it may seem, utter despair is not without its alloy of joy. The man who daintily picks his way along a mud...

Lord Stranleigh AbroadBarr Robert Lord Stranleigh Abroad I. – LORD STRANLEIGH ALL AT SEA A few minutes before noon on a hot summer day, Edmund Trevelyan walked up the gang-plank of the steamship, at that moment the largest Atlantic liner afloat. Exactly at the stroke of twelve she would leave Sou...

A Prince of Good FellowsBarr Robert A Prince of Good Fellows The King Intervenes Late evening had fallen on the grey walls of Stirling Castle, and dark night on the town itself, where narrow streets and high gables gave early welcome to the mirk, while the westward-facing turrets of the castle st...

The Strong ArmRobert Barr The Strong Arm CHAPTER I. – THE BEAUTIFUL JAILER OF GUDENFELS The aged Emir Soldan sat in his tent and smiled; the crafty Oriental smile of an experienced man, deeply grounded in the wisdom of this world. He knew that there was incipient rebellion in his camp; that the y...

A Woman IntervenesRobert Barr A Woman Intervenes TO MY FRIEND HORACE HART CHAPTER I The managing editor of the New York Argus sat at his desk with a deep frown on his face, looking out from under his shaggy eyebrows at the young man who had just thrown a huge fur overcoat on the back of one chair...

The O'Ruddy: A RomanceBarr Robert , Crane Stephen The O'Ruddy: A Romance CHAPTER I My chieftain ancestors had lived at Glandore for many centuries and were very well known. Hardly a ship could pass the Old Head of Kinsale without some boats putting off to exchange the time of day with her, and ou...

Revenge!Robert Barr Revenge! REVENGE! AN ALPINE DIVORCE In some natures there are no half-tones; nothing but raw primary colours. John Bodman was a man who was always at one extreme or the other. This probably would have mattered little had he not married a wife whose nature was an exact duplicat...

A Rock in the BalticRobert Barr A Rock in the Baltic CHAPTER I —THE INCIDENT AT THE BANK IN the public room of the Sixth National Bank at Bar Harbor in Maine, Lieutenant Alan Drummond, H.M.S. “Consternation,” stood aside to give precedence to a lady. The Lieutenant had visited the bank for the pu...