two-inch chest and wore a number fourteen collar; but his bright Scotch plaid suit gave him presenc...
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Mrs. Conant slowly dropped the paper, and sat on a chair, clasping her hands tightly. "Let me thin...
Each performance filled the house as closely as it could be packed. Then the music-mad people fough...
which take on their banana inspectors there on their way to the coast. They leave Sunday newspapers...
the most enthusiastic lovers of music between the equator and the French Opera House in New Orleans...
seasoning an alligator pear, "that you are aware of the fact that you will import a good deal of tr...
"I've found where she lives," he announced in the portentous half-whisper that makes the detective ...
"She was settin' by the front door, crocheting a lamp-mat when I saw her last," said "Bill." "She's...
going to spend the summer there, and study up on elocution, and try to get a class in the fall. The...
'busted.' I guess I'm a man first and a detective afterward. I've got to let you go, and then I've ...
Whirligigs by O Henry THE WORLD AND THE DOOR A favourite dodge to get your story read by the pub...
barber who had studied his profession in a Harlem dancing academy. There was no one to set her righ...
that ends our acquaintance." She looked up at him slowly. His face turned a little pale, and he st...
her meteoric career -- Camille, Lola Montez, Royal Mary, Zaza -- such a name as one of these would ...
amounts to twice the price that is asked for it." Let us assume that an accommodating voice in- qu...