“Brownie! Brownie Douglas, wait a moment.” Time—three o’clock in the afternoon of the 5th of September, 1876. Place—vestibule of the ...

“Fair Fielding, I heard something about you last night,” said one of the sewing girls in an uptown factory in New York to her nearest ...

The sultry September day was drawing to a close, and as the sun went down, a dark thunder-cloud came slowly up from the west, muttering ...

“Guilty!” The deep, sonorous voice of the foreman of the jury sounded out upon the solemn stillness of the crowded courtroom like the ...

In a retired street in one of the inland cities of Massachusetts stood a neat and attractive little cottage of purest white, the dark ...

Judge Camden’s two beautiful granddaughters were the pride of Fauquier County, and both were so charming that Paris himself must have ...

“A star Which moves not ’mid the moving heavens alone, A smile among dark frowns—a gentle tone Among rude voices, a beloved light, A ...

It was a beautiful winter night. The sky was brilliant with millions of beautiful stars that glowed and scintillated as if conscious ...

The morning mail for Merrivale had just arrived, and the postmaster was distributing the letters. Col. Rossiter, who lived in the large ...

The first, a small half-sheet, inclosed in a large thick envelope, and addressed in a childish, unformed hand to Mr. James Everard ...

It was in the “merry month” of May, the “beautiful harbinger of summer,” as the poets call it; and one of those charming east winds that ...

The President of the United States shook his head with an emphasis which caused the other men gathered around the massive mahogany ...

“Fly around there, little Eva, and pack the lunch basket while me an’ the other girls get ready for the hay ride an’ the party. Put in ...

“Oh, Mamma, I have had a lovely time at Mrs. Van Bibber’s! I would not have missed her reception for the world!” The blonde beauty ...

Crack—crack! Though faint and far away, there could be no mistaking these sharp, spiteful reports for other than the voice of rifles. ...

In the midst of the lonely forest, that stretched in an almost unbroken line of solitude from the head-waters of the Hudson to the ...

“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 ...

“Love! It began with a glance, Grew with the growing flowers, Smiled in a dreamful trance, Recked not the passage of hours. “Grief! ...