... GRAND LARCENY Tib *5>H2°y Bungininies SteaL By William Hamilton Osborne Smithson, of Bleecker and Smithson, swung into the superintendent's office and laid a bundle on his desk. Tommy, he said, there are the pay envelopes. Better go over them a bit. 1 didn't check them up on account of the rush. I guess they're nil right though. The superintendent nodded, shoved the bundle into a big ...

... JVo. 101. By Wymond Carey. CHAPTER V. continued. This studied insolence was exactly wiiat Andre required. I thank you, he said freezingly, but before I take your place you and I, Monsieur le Chevalier, will have a word first. As you please, my dear Vicomte, said the young man swinging comfortably on to the table and jieering at him from under his saucy plumes. You will have much to say ...

... By Francesco Berger My memory holds many storehouses filled with recollections, sweet and bitter. These store houses are all labelled. There is one labelled Father and Mother, another Munich, another London, another Trieste, another Leipzig, and yet another Charles Dickens. here is a key to unlock each, but the keys are much rusted-- rusted by many of my tears. But there is one key ...

... JV By Wymond Carey- C 1-1 A PTE R XXVII. --con tin ucd Andrè very quietly kissed her hands and re moved her cloak. The peace and happiness his self-sacrifice had already brought him showed in his eyes that love had by its own divine alchemy created for him a new heaven and a new earth. He could face the future with a tranquil confidence and bliss that surprised himself. Mon cher, madame ...

... By Robert W. Chambers This Story was begun in the issue of September 22 PART XVII. It was Mortimer's inclination, except in theory, to keep silent, partly because of his native inertia and unwill ingness to go to the physical and intellectual exertion of being a rascal, partly because he didn't want to be a rascal of that sort. Like a man with premonitions of toothache, who walks down to the ...

... JVo. 101. By Wymond Carey. CHAPTER VIII. THE VIVAXDIERK OF FOXTEXOY. The sun of spring had set on. May 10, 1745, the eve of a day memorable in the military annals of the British and French nations. Behind a camp fire in the entrenchments of Fontenoy Andre warmed himself, one of the many camp fires which flared into the dusk on that plain which for two centuries has been the cockpit of Europe ...

... Jfo. 101. By Wymond Carey. CHAPTER XXIV. A WISHED-FOR MIRACLE. The wished-for miracle had happened after all. Yet the news that the King had suddenly fainted, which spread like wildfire through the palace, was at first made light of. The King, said the Abbé de St. Victor, likes to show a touch of human and feminine weakness; he faints as women do to relieve the ennui of perpetual flattery ...

... By Robert W. Chambers This Story was begun in the issue of September 22 PARI' XX. For a week or more the snow continued: colder, gloomier weather set in, and the impending menace of Ash Wednesday redoubled the social pace, culminating in the Westervelt ball on the eve of the forty days. And Sylvia had not yet seen Siward and spoken to him again across the wilderness of streets and men. In the ...

... I BY STEPHEN FRENCH WHITMAN Illustrated by Fred Pegram. Her name was Bertha; she was a shop-girl, twenty- one years old. Her slim shape was attractive; her hair was dark and heavy; her skin had a fine, clear pallor; her eyes were large and serious. Cheap clothes she wore with that subtle display of good taste which poor girls of discernment manage sometimes to acquire by observation of the ...

... The system of fighting hail clouds by means of specially-constructed cannon has now been adopted with great success throughout the north of Italy, and is gradually becoming known and appreciated even in the less up-to-date provinces of the south. Each cannon is of the shape of an inverted cone, the opening at the mouth being 28½ in. wide. It is planted upon a tripod 3 it. high, the gun itseii ...

... ffo. 101. By Wymond Carey. CHAPTER XY1I. continued Two days had passed since that painful evening when he had parted from her in the Salle des Gardes de la Reine. He had proved his chivalry; he had triumphantly vindicated her honour; why did he not give her the opportunity to show that his conduct had appealed both to her pride and her heart? Why had he not come to ask and to receive ...

... JSo. 101. By Wymond Carey. CHAPTER X. continued. The Maréchal had grasped the fact. Dutch and Austrians had made a second effort on their right and centre and it had failed. The English were alone, and with consummate coolness he played his last card. Guns, horses, men, are feverishly brought up from Fontenoy, and while the Irish brigade, six battalions strong-- men once British subjects but ...