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AT POINT SEBASTIAN. Now the great rambling, wooden hotel in which Miss Elsie Kildare was staying under care of her friends, the Van Liews, though on the end of a telegraph-wire, and within easy day’s…
THE CYCLONE. A shining-faced negro waiter came up in answer to the bell, and brought tumblers of tinkling ice and water. Both Onslow and Miss Kildare drank thirstily, and then lay back again in their…
MR. SHELF’S LITTLE SURPRISE. Mr. Theodore Shelf had reached the end of his tether, and, like a shrewd business man, he knew it. There is a certain mad excitement in standing on a high ledge of an ice…
DECISIONS. When Onslow arrived back at the Port Edes from Point Sebastian he found Captain Kettle sitting in the chart-house, with a pen gripped between his teeth and a rhyming dictionary in his han…
A FLIGHT AND A RESTING-PLACE. Mr. Theodore Shelf had arranged for an exodus de luxe , and flattered himself that he would have no difficulty in carrying it out. He had got to know exactly when the po…
CLOSING STRANDS. Hamilton Fairfax came into the drawing-room of their newly bought house in Kent and kissed his wife, and sat down in a deep armchair. She perched herself upon the arm and leaned her …
THE LUCKY MAN. No one ever accused Mr. Reginald Lossing of having brains; no one ever denied that he had a luck which was monumental. He had a name for luck which was looked up to and marveled at, ev…
