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How the prose reads.
Two old friends keep a twenty-year appointment, but the lives they built have carried them to opposite sides of the law.
A shopgirl living on six dollars a week faces the glittering promise of dinner and the danger hidden behind it.
A young man sends a street boy to plead his case to the woman who has forbidden him to write or speak to her.
Two veteran swindlers target a Pittsburgh millionaire’s passion for antiquities, while one partner tries to keep his conscience intact.
On a train crossing the West, a chance reunion forces a young man to choose between truth and the image he once hoped to become.
A former Southwestern outlaw explains how train robberies work—and why the life is not worth the price.
A traveling medicine seller uses personal magnetism to outwit a town's mayor, its doctor, and the law itself.
A young architect spends his carefully saved evening posing as a wealthy clubman when he invites a stranger to dinner.
A millionaire father bets that money can solve his son's romantic dilemma, while the young lover searches for one uninterrupted moment.
A yellow dog surveys his unhappy New York home and decides that he and his henpecked master both deserve a better life.
A carefree young heir must explain how he spends a thousand-dollar bequest before learning what the money may truly be worth.
A struggling typist finds spring, memory, and a lost love hiding among the daily dishes on a restaurant menu.
A plain waitress mistakes one impulsive kiss for her long-awaited entrance into the glamorous world of romance.
A detective recognizes an old friend as a murderer, but an unpaid debt makes arrest more complicated than duty should allow.
A shy paper-box worker arrives at her Saturday dance with a glamorous escort and suddenly becomes the center of attention.
A homeless New Yorker tries every trick he can think of to secure a warm winter bed behind bars.
A boarder in mourning attracts a would-be suitor with a tale of a dead count, but wedding plans bring other secrets to light.
A traveling swindler recruits a mountain hog thief, only to discover that even a comic partnership has its own ethics.
Della has one dollar and eighty-seven cents, and one day left to buy her husband a Christmas present worth giving.
A young man devoted to adventure follows a mysterious green door and finds a chance to make romance matter.
Two snowbound prospectors educate themselves with very different books, then put their new knowledge to work in a small Montana town.
A talkative sheepherder takes a job on a lonely Texas ranch where a notorious train robber may be hiding nearby.
A timid pharmacist helps his rival elope with the woman they both love by preparing a very questionable love potion.
Jeff Peters explains the ethics of graft after teaming up with a burglar and a ruined financier in a town with one tempting bank.
