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Short Fiction

Lord Oakhurst’s Curse

Bexar Scrip No. 2692

Queries and Answers

Aristocracy Versus Hash

Fickle Fortune or How Gladys Hustled

A Strange Story

The Great French Detective, in Austin

Tracked to Doom

A Snapshot at the President

Three Paragraphs

A Lunar Episode

The Sensitive Colonel Jay

The Distraction of Grief

A Sporting Interest

Had a Use for It

The Old Landmark

Getting at the Facts

Too Wise

Answers to Inquiries

Hush Money

Relieved

A Villainous Trick

Book Reviews

A Conditional Pardon

Bill Nye

A Guarded Secret

A Universal Favorite

Willing to Compromise

Ridiculous

Guessed Everything Else

A Slight Mistake

A Good Story Spoiled

Revenge

No Help for It

“Not So Much a Tam Fool”

A Guess-Proof Mystery Story

An Inspiration

Coming to Him

His Pension

The Winner

Hungry Henry’s Ruse

One Consolation

An Unsuccessful Experiment

Even Worse

The Shock

The Cynic

Speaking of Big Winds

An Original Idea

Calculations

A Valedictory

Solemn Thoughts

Explaining It

Her Failing

A Disagreement

An Expensive Veracity

Grounds for Uneasiness

Recognition

His Doubt

A Cheering Thought

What It Was

Identified

Red Conlin’s Eloquence

Marvelous

The Stranger’s Appeal

The Colonel’s Romance

A Narrow Escape

A Years Supply

Slightly Mixed

Knew What Was Needed

Some Ancient News Notes

A Sure Method

A Tragedy

A Houston Romance

Nothing New Under the Sun

A Matter of Loyalty

By Easy Stages

Taking No Chances

The Other Side of It

The Bruised Reed

Journalistically Impossible

The Power of Reputation

A Personal Insult

Reconciliation

Buying a Piano

Too Late

A New Microbe

A Story for Men

Just a Little Damp

Her Mysterious Charm

Why He Hesitated

Convinced

How It Started

His Dilemma

Something for Baby

A Righteous Outburst

A Green Hand

A Fatal Error

The Rake-Off

The Telegram

An Opportunity Declined

The Confession of a Murderer

A Startling Demonstration

Leap Year Advice

After Supper

His Only Opportunity

Correcting a Great Injustice

Getting Acquainted

City Perils

Jack the Giant Killer

No Time to Lose

Paderewski’s Hair

Binkley’s Practical School of Journalism

The Apple

A Pastel

A Night Errant

Board and Ancestors

An X-Ray Fable

The Sporting Editor on Culture

A Question of Direction

The Prisoner of Zembla

Lucky Either Way

The “Bad Man”

Simmon’s Saturday Night

The Wounded Veteran

Her Ruse

Why Conductors Are Morose

Led Astray

The Mirage on the Frio

The Legend of San Jacinto

In Mezzotint

Whiskey Did It

A Strange Case

How Willie Saved Father

Veriton Villa

A Mystery of Many Centuries

The Good Boy

The Dissipated Jeweler

Sufficient Provocation

The Pint Flask

An Unknown Romance

How She Got in the Swim

An Odd Character

The Barber Talks

The Sunday Excursionist

Barbershop Adventure

Somebody Lied

The Lotus and the Cockleburrs

The Proem

“Fox-in-the-Morning”

The Lotus and the Bottle

Smith

Caught

Cupid’s Exile Number Two

The Phonograph and the Graft

Money Maze

The Admiral

The Flag Paramount

The Shamrock and the Palm

The Remnants of the Code

Shoes

Ships

Masters of Arts

Dicky

Rouge Et Noir

Two Recalls

The Vitagraphoscope

Whistling Dick’s Christmas Stocking

Georgia’s Ruling

Bulger’s Friend

A Blackjack Bargainer

The Duplicity of Hargraves

The Passing of Black Eagle

Cherchez La Femme

Friends in San Rosario

The Marionettes

By Courier

Madame Bo-Peep, of the Ranches

An Afternoon Miracle

A Call Loan

The Struggle of the Outliers

A Professional Secret

Cupid à la Carte

A Departmental Case

Round the Circle

The Cactus

The Renaissance at Charleroi

Hearts and Hands

A Ghost of a Chance

Art and the Bronco

Hygeia at the Solito

Sound and Fury

Roads of Destiny

The Robe of Peace

A Retrieved Reformation

One Dollar’s Worth

While the Auto Waits

The Guardian of the Accolade

October and June

The Marquis and Miss Sally

Out of Nazareth

The Atavism of John Tom Little Bear

The Whirligig of Life

The Fourth in Salvador

Jimmy Hayes and Muriel

Tobin’s Palm

The Lonesome Road

Confessions of a Humorist

At Arms with Morpheus

The Princess and the Puma

A Chaparral Christmas Gift

The Sphinx Apple

The Pimienta Pancakes

The Social Triangle

The Elusive Tenderloin

A Chaparral Prince

The Ferry of Unfulfilment

The Pendulum

The Hypotheses of Failure

Transformation of Martin Burney

A Little Local Colour

A Newspaper Story

A Madison Square Arabian Night

The Champion of the Weather

On Behalf of the Management

The Enchanted Kiss

The Adventures of Shamrock Jolnes

After Twenty Years

The Sparrows in Madison Square

Lost on Dress Parade

The Reformation of Calliope

Witches’ Loaves

New York by Camp Fire Light

The Romance of a Busy Broker

A Matter of Mean Elevation

The Brief Debut of Tildy

Holding Up a Train

The Easter of the Soul

Ulysses and the Dogman

The Complete Life of John Hopkins

The Caliph and the Cad

The Door of Unrest

The Emancipation of Billy

A Harlem Tragedy

Dougherty’s Eye-Opener

The Rubber Plant’s Story

The Gold That Glittered

A Lickpenny Lover

The Missing Chord

A Dinner at ———3

One Thousand Dollars

A Comedy in Rubber

The Defeat of the City

The Pride of the Cities

The Greater Coney

Transients in Arcadia

The Lady Higher Up

The Foreign Policy of Company 99

Two Renegades

A Tempered Wind

The Roads We Take

The Furnished Room

A Philistine in Bohemia

The Diamond of Kali

A Little Talk About Mobs

Suite Homes and Their Romance

The Caliph, Cupid and the Clock

Makes the Whole World Kin

The Love-Philtre of Ikey Schoenstein

The Rathskeller and the Rose

A Sacrifice Hit

The Sleuths

From the Cabby’s Seat

The Theory and the Hound

The Coming-Out of Maggie

Squaring the Circle

Hearts and Crosses

The Ransom of Mack

The Cop and the Anthem

Christmas by Injunction

The Green Door

The Church with an Overshot-Wheel

The Badge of Policeman O’Roon

A Ramble in Aphasia

The Making of a New Yorker

A Service of Love

Psyche and the Pskyscraper

A Cosmopolite in a Café

The Girl and the Habit

Vanity and Some Sables

The Unknown Quantity

Babes in the Jungle

The Song and the Sergeant

Man About Town

Memoirs of a Yellow Dog

Mammon and the Archer

The Detective Detector

“Little Speck in Garnered Fruit”

The Shocks of Doom

Extradited from Bohemia

The Red Roses of Tonia

Springtime à la Carte

Between Rounds

Tommy’s Burglar

The Marry Month of May

The Girl and the Graft

The Call of the Tame

According to Their Lights

Roses, Ruses and Romance

The Voice of the City

Hostages to Momus

Sisters of the Golden Circle

The Dog and the Playlet

An Adjustment of Nature

A Midsummer Knight’s Dream

The Lost Blend

An Unfinished Story

Nemesis and the Candy Man

The City of Dreadful Night

The Skylight Room

The Assessor of Success

From Each According to His Ability

The Poet and the Peasant

A Bird of Baghdad

The Plutonian Fire

“The Guilty Party”

The Count and the Wedding Guest

The Last Leaf

Elsie in New York

The Clarion Call

The Tale of a Tainted Tenner

Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen

Blind Man’s Holiday

Telemachus, Friend

A Double-Dyed Deceiver

The Gift of the Magi

The Duel

The Thing’s the Play

The Rubaiyat of a Scotch Highball

The Buyer from Cactus City

The Harbinger

The Day Resurgent

The Fool-Killer

The Handbook of Hymen

Brickdust Row

Sociology in Serge and Straw

“Girl”

A Ruler of Men

The Trimmed Lamp

The Higher Abdication

Calloway’s Code

The Country of Elusion

The Ethics of Pig

Compliments of the Season

Seats of the Haughty

The Purple Dress

Past One at Rooney’s

The Indian Summer of Dry Valley Johnson

The Man Higher Up

Proof of the Pudding

The Halberdier of the Little Rheinschloss

The Caballero’s Way

The Ransom of Red Chief

The Fifth Wheel

The World and the Door

Phoebe

“Next to Reading Matter”

The Day We Celebrate

The Octopus Marooned

Jeff Peters as a Personal Magnet

Modern Rural Sports

The Chair of Philanthromathematics

The Hand That Riles the World

The Exact Science of Matrimony

A Midsummer Masquerade

Shearing the Wolf

Innocents of Broadway

Conscience in Art

The Memento

The Enchanted Profile

A Night in New Arabia

The Headhunter

The Moment of Victory

“The Rose of Dixie”

Buried Treasure

The Last of the Troubadours

Strictly Business

“What You Want”

The Hiding of Black Bill

Schools and Schools

The Discounters of Money

He Also Serves

The Third Ingredient

Thimble, Thimble

Helping the Other Fellow

Supply and Demand

To Him Who Waits

The Higher Pragmatism

Bestseller

No Story

A Poor Rule

Rus in Urbe

The Venturers

A Municipal Report

A Christmas Pi

A Technical Error

Let Me Feel Your Pulse

The Friendly Call

The Snow Man

Law and Order

An Unfinished Christmas Story

The Unprofitable Servant

A Fog in Santone

The Dream

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