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Samuel Merwin

The TrufflersSamuel Merwin The Trufflers / A Story CHAPTER I – THE GIRL IN THE PLAID COAT PETER ERICSON MANN leaned back in his chair and let his hands fall listlessly from the typewriter to his lap.He raised them again and laboriously pecked out a few words.It was no use.He got up, walked to one...

Anthony The AbsoluteSamuel Merwin Anthony The Absolute At Sea – March 28th THIS evening I told Sir Robert What’s-His-Name he was a fool.I was quite right in this. He is.Every evening since the ship left Vancouver he has presided over the round table in the middle of the smoking-room. There he sip...

In Red and GoldSamuel Merwin In Red and Gold CHAPTER I – FELLOW VOYAGERS ON a night in October, 1911, the river steamer Yen Hsin lay alongside the godown, or warehouse, of the Chinese Navigation Company at Shanghai. Her black hull bulked large in the darkness that was spotted with inadequate elec...

The Merry AnneSamuel Merwin The Merry Anne THE MERRY ANNEDear H. K. TV.:This tale dedicates itself to you as a matter of right. For we grew up together on the bank of Lake Michigan; and you have not forgotten, over there in Paris, the real house on stilts, nor the miles we have tramped along the ...

The Road BuildersSamuel Merwin The Road Builders CHAPTER I YOUNG VAN ENGAGES A COOK The S. & W. was hoping some day to build a large station with a steel and glass trainshed at Sherman. Indeed, a side elevation of the structure, drawn to scale and framed in black walnut, had hung for a number...

Drugging a Nation: The Story of China and the Opium CurseMerwin Samuel Drugging a Nation: The Story of China and the Opium Curse NOTE These chapters were originally published during 1907 and 1908 in Success Magazine. Though frankly journalistic in tone, the book presents something more than the h...

Calumet 'K'Merwin Samuel , Webster Henry Kitchell Calumet 'K' CHAPTER I The contract for the two million bushel grain elevator, Calumet K, had been let to MacBride & Company, of Minneapolis, in January, but the superstructure was not begun until late in May, and at the end of October it was s...

The Road to FrontenacMerwin Samuel The Road to Frontenac CHAPTER I CAPTAIN MENARD HAS A LAZY DAY Captain Daniel Menard leaned against the parapet at the outer edge of the citadel balcony. The sun was high, the air clear and still. Beneath him, at the foot of the cliff, nestled the Lower Town, a s...

Henry Is Twenty: A Further Episodic History of Henry Calverly, 3rdMerwin Samuel Henry Is Twenty / A Further Episodic History of Henry Calverly, 3rd OF PATTERNS AND PERSONSIt would be ungracious to let this book go out into a preoccupied world without some word of gratitude to those who have writt...