Alice Muriel Williamson

If I didn't tell this, nobody else ever would; certainly not Diana, nor Major Vandyke - still less Eagle himself - I mean Captain Eagleston March; and they and I are the only ones who know, except a few such people as presidents and secretaries of war and generals, who never tell anything even under torture. Besides, there is the unofficial...

Roger Sands had steel-gray eyes, a straight black line of brows drawn low and nearly meeting above them, thick black hair lightly powdered with silver at the temples, and a clean-shaven, aggressive chin. He had the air of being hard as nails. Most people, including women, thought him hard as nails. He thought it of himself, and gloried in his...

Padre, when you died, you left a message for me. You asked me to go on writing, if I were in trouble, just as I used to write when you were on earth. I used to confess, and you used to advise. Also you used to scold. How you used to scold! I am going to do now what you asked, in that message....

It was the great ball of the season at Fort Ellsworth. For a special reason it had begun unusually late; but, though the eighth dance was on, the great event of the evening had not happened yet. Until that should happen, the rest, charming though it might be, was a mere curtain-raiser to keep men amused before the first act of the play....

THE KING'S CAR "e;Motor to Biarritz? You must be mad,"e; said Dick Waring. "e;Why?"e; I asked; though I knew why as well as he. "e;A nice way to receive an invitation."e; "e;If you must know, it's because the King of Spain will be there, visiting his English fiancee,"e; Dick answered. "e;I wish him...