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 ...

"Ho, my boy! do you wish to make a dollar?" "I do, sir—indeed I do." "What is your name?" "Will, sir." "Well, Will, can you keep ...

“To all such meetings as these!” cried Densham, lifting his champagne glass from under the soft halo of the rose-shaded electric lights. ...

“Mr. David Hume.” Reginald Brett, barrister-detective, twisted around in his easy chair to permit the light to fall clearly on the card ...

“And besides, you know, my dear Mrs. Rose, there is generally something wrong about a woman who dresses so very well.” So spoke Mrs. ...

The great bough of a spreading maple tree was swaying to and fro in the summer wind, a shapely bough covered with green leaves. On it ...

“A man and a woman together; then a man alone.” Nick Carter thought this remark rather than uttered it in words, as he came to an ...

Among the earliest settlements of Kentucky was that which figures in our story. At the time of the following events, it contained some ...

The hot Arkansas sun shone hotly down upon Dead-Man’s Forest, that vast, sleepy army of trees that silently overlooked acres of ...

“You have bags of gold, and do you refuse to give me just a little?” “Not one cent.” “I helped you to earn that money.” “Yes.” “And ...

“I feared you would not come.” The speaker, a beautiful woman of two or three and thirty, half reclined on a sofa, in an elegant ...

“There goes another, chief. That makes five so far. There surely is something going on tonight,” the young man at the window declared ...

The hands of the clock pointed at half-past five, one beautiful June morning, when Nick Carter, having just finished with his morning ...

In Thirty-fifth Street, east of Fifth Avenue, there is a house conspicuous among its neighbors in that it differs in construction by ...

“Nathan Lusker.” Nick Carter read the sign over the jeweler’s store on Eighth Avenue and stopped to glance critically at the place. He ...

“Well, Chick, it’s good to strike little old New York again.” Nick Carter jumped down from the railroad car and shook himself like a ...

“You say he cannot travel today, doctor?” “Impossible, Mr. Carter!” “He would be in a drawing room on the Pullman, and every care ...

A spear shot into the midst of the camp, and stuck, quivering, in the ground! Patsy Garvan and Chick jumped to their feet, rifle in ...

“No, Carter! I shall not go back until I have got my hands on that wretched crook, William Pike, and I don’t care if it leads me into ...

“Well, my dear Gilsey, I rather think I can land him for you,” declared Nick Carter, with an odd smile lurking in the corners of his ...