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Ernest Hornung

Some Persons UnknownSome Persons Unknown KENYON'S INNINGS I Kenyon had been more unmanageable than usual. Unsettled and excitable from the moment he awoke and remembered who was coming in the evening, he had remained in an unsafe state all day. That evening found him with unbroken bones was a mir...

The Unbidden GuestErnest William Hornung The Unbidden Guest CHAPTER I. – THE GIRL FROM HOME Arabella was the first at the farm to become aware of Mr. Teesdale’s return from Melbourne. She was reading in the parlour, with her plump elbows planted upon the faded green table-cloth, and an untidy hea...

The Young GuardE. W. Hornung The Young Guard CONSECRATION CHILDREN we deemed you all the daysWe vexed you with our care:But in a Universe ablaze,What was your childish share?To rush upon the flames of Hell,To quench them with your blood!To be of England's flower that fellEre yet it brake the bud!...

Fathers of MenE. W. Hornung Fathers of Men CHAPTER I BEHIND THE SCENES The two new boys in Heriot’s house had been suitably entertained at his table, and afterwards in his study with bound volumes of Punch. Incidentally they had been encouraged to talk, with the result that one boy had talked too...

Young BloodE. W. Hornung Young Blood CHAPTER I THE OLD HOME Harry Ringrose came of age on the happiest morning of his life. He was on dry land at last, and flying north at fifty miles an hour instead of at some insignificant and yet precarious number of knots. He would be at home to eat his birth...

The Thousandth WomanHornung E. W. Ernest William The Thousandth Woman I A SMALL WORLD Cazalet sat up so suddenly that his head hit the woodwork over the upper berth. His own voice still rang in his startled ears. He wondered how much he had said, and how far it could have carried above the throb ...

PeccaviHornung E. W. Ernest William Peccavi I DUST TO DUST Long Stow church lay hidden for the summer amid a million leaves. It had neither tower nor steeple to show above the trees; nor was the scaffolding between nave and chancel an earnest of one or the other to come. It was a simple little ch...

The Shadow of a ManHornung E. W. Ernest William The Shadow of a Man I THE BELLE OF TOORAK "And you're quite sure the place doesn't choke you off?""The place? Why, I'd marry you for it alone. It's just sweet!"Of course it was nothing of the kind. There was the usual galaxy of log huts; the biggest...

Witching HillHornung E. W. Ernest William Witching Hill CHAPTER I Unhallowed Ground The Witching Hill Estate Office was as new as the Queen Anne houses it had to let, and about as worthy of its name. It was just a wooden box with a veneer of rough-cast and a corrugated iron lid. Inside there was ...

A Thief in the Night: Further adventures of A. J. Raffles, Cricketer and CracksmanHornung E. W. Ernest William A Thief in the Night: Further adventures of A. J. Raffles, Cricketer and Cracksman Out of Paradise If I must tell more tales of Raffles, I can but go back to our earliest days together, ...