类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： For more than ten generations my maternal ancestors have been farers of the sea, and I was born within call of high tide. At the distance of a thousand miles inland it still called me, and often in childhood I woke at night from dreams of a blue harb...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： For a detective whose talents, had not been recognized at headquarters, I possessed an ambition which, fortunately for my standing with the lieutenant of the precinct, had not yet been expressed in words. Though I had small reason for expecting great...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The Russian-American Telegraph Company, otherwise known as the Western union Extension, was organised at New York in the summer of 1864. The idea of a line from America to Europe, by way of Bering Strait, had existed for many years in the minds...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Of course, Benny Badger had the best of reasons for living on the high, dry plains. There he had for neighbors plenty of ground squirrels and prairie dogs. And it is likely that he enjoyed their company much more than they did his....
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The autumn dusk had stained the sky with shadows and orange oblongs traced the windows in my neighbors' homes as Jules de Grandin and I sat sipping kaiserschmarrn and coffee in the study after dinner. Mon Dieu, the little Frenchman sighed, I have the...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Two girls were following a narrow trail.About them the woods were scarlet and flame, golden and bronze, and in contrast the blue-green depth of tall pine and cedar trees....
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： It was a splendid officemahogany, plate-glass windows and all that pertains to the uninteresting side of respectability. There was a lawyer there, sitting before his deska crisp, gray sort of lawyer, who looked as if when you patted him gently he wou...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The tall young man on the station platform turned and looked with a slight frown at the battered station wagon across the street. He was dressed in a gray uniform and wore a tall military hat. The letters W. M. I. in gold showed plainly on the hat. I...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： John North unlocked the door and threw it open. The study was in semi-darkness and filled with the accumulated heat and fust of the summer. Ghostlike objects took shape before him and resolved themselves into chairs and couches and tables draped with...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： A DULL patter of sheeps hurrying feet came from behind a small knoll that jutted into the track along the mountain. The level plateau was wide and smooth below the towering slopes, and the threads of water crossing it at intervals had laid the underl...
