Book Excerpt int of the arrow.” Here Rama, the much worshipped hero of the Hindus, felt thirsty and, not finding any water, shot an arrow and immediately there was created a pond. Its crystal waters were surrounded by a high wall, steps were built leading down to it, and a circle of white marble dwellings […]
A lovable girl upon whom fate has thrust an unbearable burden of trouble, alone in the mountains of Montana and threatened by a man whom she has every cause to hate and fear, arms herself, mounts a horse, and bravely rides away. Thus begins a journey leading East to grandparents of a widely divergent social […]
Ezra Girdlestone is faces financial ruin and his only hope lies in the legacy bequeathed to his young ward John. Anxious to claim the money, Ezra plots the fellow’s murder — but young Kate Horston’s suspicions get in the way…
Book Excerpt grey blanket. With the exception of the trifling formality of trousers, he was well dressed in a sack coat, a shirt, waistcoat, and a sort of college-boy collar and tie, which one of the orderlies had purchased for him. His other things were in that extremely expensive English car which the city was […]
Book Excerpt ithdraw her head from the pane; and at the same moment he heard a sprightly tune whistle’d. Looking down the meadow he saw a tall, well-formed young white man, a gun on his back, and a dog at his heels, walking along the little path toward the cottage,”This is the lover,” he muttered; […]
Book Excerpt used a young man, the following day in the little hamlet of Tafelberg, to whistle as he carefully read it over.”I am glad that I am not the mad king of Lutha,” he said as he paid the storekeeper for the gasoline he had just pur- chased and stepped into the gray roadster […]
Book Excerpt l faut que je répande un peu de baume sur les blessures que je viens de faire, l’espoir n’est pas encore banni de mon coeur, et cette mère respectable, que j’idolâtre, et qui vous aime, me charge positivement de vous dire qu’elle ne veut pas que vous vous désespériez…. Elle est presque sûre […]