In the sweet and balmy springtime, the sedate senior’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of frivolity. All through the weary winter ...

Choo! choo! choo! The sound came from the exhaust pipe of the little steamer. “Chew! chew chew!” grunted Bruce Browning, lazily ...

“Mr. Maxwell Kane!” The announcement was made by Nick Carter’s valet, Joseph, who threw open the door of his master’s study with a ...

Fairhaven had fought desperately for the game at Seaslope, and three extra innings had been necessary to decide the contest, but the ...

On the shady veranda of an old-fashioned Southern house, on the outskirts of St. Louis, two men in the prime of life were enjoying their ...

“Got any opening in these diggin’s for a feller of my size and good looks?” The speaker was a boy of some sixteen years of age, a ...

“Help! Help!” This thrilling cry rang out upon the night air in one of the side streets of New York City. The few pedestrians in the ...

In fifteen minutes the emigrant train on the Union Pacific railroad was to leave the depot at Omaha, going west. Two men, evidently ...

The wind was howling over the prairie, with a sharp, penetrating power, while a few feathery flashes eddying through the air, showed ...

The great, round moon looked down in a flood of silver light upon the virgin forest by the banks of the Scioto, the beautiful river that ...

In a saloon adjoining the St. Louis theater (the city at that time could boast of but one theater) were collected half a dozen men, ...

A tall, muscular young fellow, dressed in hunter garb, came silently out of the woods from the north side of the Kentucky River, about a ...

“So you think the earth has been thoroughly explored, and that there is no such thing as an undiscovered continent, do you?” asked Percy ...

A very important meeting of the American Scientific Society had been held in their Hall in the city of New York. All the learned ...

Readestown, U. S. A., is a smart, flourishing little city upon a certain river that runs down to the sea, and it owes its founding and ...

“John is a wild renegade and a shame to the colony,” exclaimed Captain Richard Bonyton, in a burst of unfatherly indignation. It was ...

Down the Connecticut, not many miles from the city of Hartford, in the early days of the State of Wooden Nutmegs, stood an ancient fort, ...

“A submarine boat? Do you really mean it, Frank? I trust you are not becoming mentally unbalanced with the success of your inventive ...

“Stranger than the tales of the Arabian Nights—indeed, almost Munchausen-like in its seemingly improbable character is the tale I am ...

Honk, h-o-n-k! “Look out there! Jump—jump!” High above these sounds there broke a startled yell. Owen Clancy, who was tramping along ...