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Cleek, the Master DetectiveThomas W. Hanshew Cleek, the Master Detective CHAPTER I THE AFFAIR OF THE MAN WHO CALLED HIMSELF HAMILTON CLEEK I The thing wouldn't have happened if any other constable than Collins had been put on point duty at Blackfriars Bridge that morning. For Collins was young, g...

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By Rock and Pool on an Austral Shore, and Other StoriesLouis Becke By Rock and Pool on an Austral Shore, and Other Stories By Rock and Pool on an Austral Shore The quaint, old-fashioned little town faces eastward to the blue Pacific, whose billows, when the wind blows from any point between north...

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 19, No. 546, May 12, 1832Various The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction / Volume 19, No. 546, May 12, 1832 ST. PANCRAS (OLD) CHURCH ST. PANCRAS (OLD) CHURCH.This humble village fane is situated to the north of London, some...

Rebecca of Sunnybrook FarmKate Douglas Smith Wiggin Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm TO MY MOTHER Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair;Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair;But all things else about her drawnFrom May-time and the cheerful Dawn;A dancing Shape, an Image gay,To haunt, to startle, and way-la...

The Secret of SarekLeblanc Maurice The Secret of Sarek FOREWORDThe war has led to so many upheavals that not many people now remember the Hergemont scandal of seventeen years ago. Let us recall the details in a few lines.One day in July 1902, M. Antoine d'Hergemont, the author of a series of well...

What Katy DidSusan Coolidge What Katy Did TO FIVE Six of us once, my darlings, played together Beneath green boughs, which faded long ago,Made merry in the golden summer weather, Pelted each other with new-fallen snow. Did the sun always shine? I can't remember A single cloud that dimmed the happ...

Denzil QuarrierGeorge Gissing Denzil Quarrier CHAPTER I For half an hour there had been perfect silence in the room. The cat upon the hearthrug slept profoundly; the fire was sunk to a still red glow; the cold light of the autumn afternoon thickened into dusk.Lilian seemed to be reading. She sat ...

The Giraffe HuntersReid Mayne The Giraffe Hunters Chapter One. Arrival at the Promised Land In that land of which we have so many records of early and high civilisation, and also such strong evidences of present barbarism, – the land of which we know so much and so little, – the land where Nature...

Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of WomanWilliam Godwin Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin.CHAP. I. 1759-1775 It has always appeared to me, that to give to the public some account of the life of a person of eminent merit de...