Mrs. Brennen took snuff. She got it out of her grandson’s store; going in and helping herself from ... Read more
Adventure Short Stories
Total Stories: 560
This is the tale which Jehan Tugluk Khan, a wise man in Tartary, and milk brother to Ghengiz ... Read more
SPEAKING in after years about that period of his life, Lloyd Merriwether, being a New Englander and thus ... Read more
Summary of Leiningen Versus the Ants Leiningen is an industrious coffee plantation owner in Brazil. He has built ... Read more
His affair that night was prosy. He was intending the murder of an old Spanish woman around the ... Read more
BEHIND him the Koh Haji-Lal, the “Mountains of the Red Pilgrim,” closed like a ragged tide. In front ... Read more
THE fact that the man whom he feared had died ten years earlier did not in the least ... Read more
“Everybody ready?” “Sure! Been ready half an hour.” “Wait a minute, Frank, till I tighten my skate strap,” ... Read more
Each with his favorite hunting pig on a stout string, a band of the leading citizens of Montpont ... Read more
“OFF THERE to the right–somewhere–is a large island,” said Whitney.” It’s rather a mystery–“ “What island is it?” ... Read more
Moistening the tip of his immaculate handkerchief, M. Alphonse Marie Louis Camille Pettipon deftly and daintily rubbed an ... Read more
All day long they kept Horace Nimms in a steel-barred cage. For twenty-one years he had perched on ... Read more
