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A millionaire falls for a shopgirl whose experience of flattering customers makes his promises difficult to believe.
A writer and his confident New York guide go looking for authentic Bowery speech and encounter awkward evidence.
Troubled by a letter, a wealthy New Yorker invites a homeless artist to dinner and hears of a remarkable gift.
A busy man insists that New York is the perfect summer resort, though his thoughts keep returning to mountain air.
Two swindlers seeking a quiet mountain holiday are recruited to impersonate the famous guests their innkeeper promised.
A traveling journalist arrives in supposedly uneventful Nashville and discovers that its quiet streets conceal tangled loyalties and danger.
One morning’s newspaper passes through several hands, testing its claims to guide, improve, and protect its readers.
A millionaire seeks peace of mind through charity while his daughter secretly courts a grocery deliveryman.
A boardinghouse keeper's daughter likes her polished foreign suitor but fears he may be another penniless nobleman.
A man awakens on a train with thousands of dollars, no remembered name, and an inviting new life ahead of him.
A celebrated safecracker tries to build an honest life under a new name, but his old skills are not finished with him.
An aspiring soldier of fortune follows his favorite adventure plots into a South American revolution.
An ambitious writer courts a magazine's manuscript reader, hoping romance will open the way to publication.
Two young artists quietly sacrifice for each other when money runs out and their shared creative life is threatened.
A loving mother dreams that she is a frightened child left alone with dangerous household objects.
A father's errand for medicine leaves his daughter with a fear that lasts into the next generation.
A rancher's revenge is blocked by a frontier rule: never shoot a man who is with a woman.
Two penniless New Yorkers seek a meal while disagreeing about what a hungry man should be willing to do.
Two old friends keep a twenty-year appointment, but the lives they built have carried them to opposite sides of the law.
Three struggling artists try to keep their favorite waitress from catching the eye of a newly wealthy visitor.
A wife recreates a saloon at home to keep her beer-loving husband from going downtown.
A shopgirl living on six dollars a week faces the glittering promise of dinner and the danger hidden behind it.
A hungry legislator searches Austin for a boarding house that values dinner more than distinguished ancestors.
A cowboy painter’s first canvas reaches the state capitol, where family fame may count for more than art.
