Heimweh; The siren; The loaded gun; Liebereich; "Iupiter Tonans;" "Sis;" Thor's emerald; GuileLong, John Luther
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Heimweh; The siren; The loaded gun; Liebereich; "Iupiter Tonans;" "Sis;" Thor's emerald; Guile
Long, John Luther
American fiction -- 20th century; Short stories, American
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I The Shibboleth of Liberty 237
II When the Summer came Again 245
III The Land of the Brave 254
IV The Home of the Free 260
V The Quality of Justice 268
VI The Foolishness of Preaching 277
VII To a Higher Tribunal 285
VIII The Shadow of Death 288
_GUILE_
PAGE
I Chilly Wisdom 295
II Patchouly 301
III The Calyxlike Bonnet 306
IV The Fiddling of Fortune 312
V A Dangerous Train 317
VI Similia Similibus Curantur 322
VII The Ineffable Whirl 329
VIII The Length of a Minute 331
IX At Ten in the Morning 338
X By the Right of a Husband 340
_ILLUSTRATIONS_
“So they marched away to the tune of ‘The Girl I Left
Behind Me’” _Frontispiece_
FACING PAGE
“‘It’s like climbing Zion’s hill,’ said John to himself” 44
“‘I guess you’re the right sort,’ he said hoarsely. ‘Put
it there!’” 100
“She was on the floor there before him, her face
upraised to his” 126
“Like a picture in its frame, there stood his wife” 152
“The entire ship’s company gathered and viewed it
curiously” 192
“‘I want to marry one of you girls, but hanged if I know
which one to ask’” 218
HEIMWEH[1]
I LIFE HAS NO FUTURE AT TWENTY-ONE
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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