It is sunset; a dusky red is spreading out from the horizon and throwing a duskier reflection upon the sullen sea and its more sullen ...

A dusky, piquante face, arch, sparkling, bright, as only brunette faces can be, dark, waving hair, and pansy-dark eyes with golden ...

"The moonlight lay on the garden wall, And bathed each path in a silver glow; And over the towers of the grey hall Its pearly banner ...

"If I could have my dearest wish fulfilled, And take my choice of all earth's treasures, too, Or choose from Heaven whatsoe'er I ...

"Once those eyes, full sweet, full shy, Told a certain thing to mine; What they told me I put by, Oh, so careless of the sign. Such ...

"We were two daughters of one race; She was the fairest in the face; The wind is sighing in turret and tree. I hated her with the ...

Ivan pulled aside the curtain and looked up at the sky. It was as clear as crystal, as blue as the eyes of his beloved, the promise ...

Were the events of this nether sphere governed by the calculus of probabilities, Count Abel Larinski and Mlle. Antoinette Moriaz would ...

"Your cayuse is quiet as a lamb now, isn't he, Jo," inquired Jim. "He ought to be by this time," I replied. "You wouldn't expect him to ...

The West Indian liner, Tropic Queen, one of the great vessels owned by the big shipping combine at whose head was Jacob Jukes, the New ...

"Up with your helm there, Noddy! Luff her up or you'll have the Curlew on the rocks!" "That's right, luff!" cried Billy Raynor, adding ...

One breezy day in early June, when a fresh wind offshore was whipping the water into sparkling white caps, excitement, and comment ...

There was a sudden stir in the forward section of the stuffy, crowded railway coach. The interruption to the stolid apathy that had ...

"Isn't it a dandy picture—the real thing—just as I've always imagined it? Herc!" Ned Strong wheeled from the gaudily colored lithograph ...

“Pardon me—but surely I am not mistaken,—you two young men are brave sailors on board the Beale?” “Hum; don’t know about the ‘brave ...

“So your final answer is no?” “Yes. And with a big N, Mr. Ferriss. I have put my best work of head and hand into the Lockyer submarine, ...

“This is Golden Gate Park, Herc.” “Huh,” responded the red-headed lad, whom we know as Herc Taylor, gazing about him, “where are the ...

Twenty days out from San Francisco in the vast, heaving desert of the sea, twenty days of storm, sunshine, and calm, the Sea Gypsy, the ...

Juarez was sleepy, very sleepy. He had been traveling on a railroad train for several days, and while ordinarily, he could adapt himself ...

Mr. Kent was a very able magistrate. He had sat on the bench for many years and was considered a man of great legal attainments and ...