Genre Short

A Strange Meeting

Mary Rollins is torn between selfish depravity and righteous living. After she’s coerced into helping with the burglary of her minister’s apartment, she comes face to face with her misdeeds.

A Troublesome Satchel

Sight unseen, a man buys a bag that turns out to contain burglar tools. He can’t get rid of the bag, even when he’s robbed. The thieves assume he’s a colleague and return the bag and tools.

A Wreath in Time

A few of us have had the chance to read our own obituary notice, but it fell to the lot of John Goodhusband the rare privilege of viewing his own elegiac cinerary floral offerings, and at the time John was…

The Trick that Failed

Nellie is a struggling artist whose paintings lie unsold. Billy, a successful painter, loves her, but she tells him that she cannot marry until she sells her paintings. Billy recruits his friends to buy her paintings. At first she is…

The Winning Coat

A young courtier gambles in a tavern and wins a coat from the leader of a gang. In the pocket he finds details of a plan to kidnap the Queen. He returns to the castle and hides until the kidnappers…

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