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George Gibbs

In Search of MademoiselleGeorge Gibbs In Search of Mademoiselle NOTEThere were no more vivid episodes in the colonization of the New World than those resulting from the attempts of the French people to gain a permanent foothold on our shores. This fact has long been recognized by sober historians...

The Forbidden WayGeorge Gibbs The Forbidden Way CHAPTER I SHARP PRACTICE The young man in the swivel chair drummed with his toes against the desk, while he studied the gaudy fire insurance calendar on the wall before him. His pipe hung bowl downward from his lips, and the long fingers of one hand...

The Splendid OutcastGeorge Gibbs The Splendid Outcast CHAPTER I THE CONVALESCENT Jim Horton awoke in high fever and great pain but the operation upon his skull had been successful and it was believed that he would recover. Something as to the facts of the exploit of the wounded man had come to th...

The Golden BoughGeorge Gibbs The Golden Bough CHAPTER I CREPUSCULE In the still evening air the dust hung golden for a moment and then slowly settled on tree and hedgerow; from a distance, faintly diminishing, the tinkle of sheep bells, the call of a bird, the sighing of a breeze, and then, silen...

Pike & Cutlass: Hero Tales of Our NavyGeorge Gibbs Pike & Cutlass: Hero Tales of Our Navy NOTEThe writer expresses thanks for their courtesy to the editors of “Lippincott’s Magazine” and the editors of the “Saturday Evening Post,” of Philadelphia, in which periodicals several of these Her...

The Silent BattleGeorge Gibbs The Silent Battle I LOST Gallatin wearily lowered the creel from his shoulders and dropped it by his rod at the foot of a tree. He knew that he was lost—had known it, in fact, for an hour or more, but with the certainty that there was no way out until morning, perhap...

The Secret WitnessGeorge Gibbs The Secret Witness CHAPTER I JUNE 12, 1914 The Countess Marishka was fleet of foot. She was straight and slender and she set a pace for Renwick along the tortuous paths in the rose gardens of the Archduke which soon had her pursuer gasping. She ran like a boy, her d...

The Yellow DoveGeorge Gibbs The Yellow Dove PRELUDE Rifts of sullen gray in the dirty veil of vapor beyond the reaches of dunes, where the sea in long lines of white, like the ghostly hosts of lost regiments, clamored along the sand....A soughing wind, a shrieking of sea-birds, audible in pauses ...

Paradise Garden: The Satirical Narrative of a Great ExperimentGeorge Gibbs Paradise Garden: The Satirical Narrative of a Great Experiment I have considered well his loss of timeAnd how he cannot be a perfect manNot being tried and tutored in the world. —TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA."'Love!' he sneered...

The Maker of OpportunitiesGeorge Gibbs The Maker of Opportunities CHAPTER I It was two o’clock. Mr. Mortimer Crabb pushed back the chair from his breakfast tray and languidly took up the morning paper. He had a reputation (in which he delighted) of dwelling in a Castle of Indolence, and took part...