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The Man Who was not on the Passenger List by Robert Barr
“The well-sworn Lie, franked to the world with allThe circumstance of proof,Cringes abashed, and sneaks along the wallAt the first…
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The Purser’s Story by Robert Barr
“O Mother-nature, kind in touch and tone.Act as we may, thou clearest to thine own”I don’t know that I should…
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The Shadow of the Greenback by Robert Barr
Hickory Sam needed but one quality to be perfect. He should have been an arrant coward. He was a blustering…
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The Terrible Experience of Plodkins by Robert Barr
“Which–life or death? Tis a gambler’s chance!Yet, unconcerned, we spin and dance,On the brittle thread of circumstance.”I understand that Plodkins…
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The Understudy by Robert Barr
The Monarch in the Arabian story had an ointment which, put upon the right eye, enabled him to see through…
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The Vengeance of the Dead by Robert Barr
It is a bad thing for a man to die with an unsatisfied thirst for revenge parching his soul. David…
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The Warrior Maid of San Carlos by Robert Barr
The young naval officer came into this world with two eyes and two arms; he left it with but one…
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Transformation by Robert Barr
If you grind castor sugar with an equal quantity of chlorate of potash, the result is an innocent-looking white compound,…
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Two Florentine Balconies by Robert Barr
Prince Padema sat desolately on his lofty balcony at Florence, and cursed things generally. Fate had indeed dealt hardly with…
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Which Was the Murderer? by Robert Barr
Mrs. John Forder had no premonition of evil. When she heard the hall clock strike nine she was blithely singing…
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