Produced by MFR, For Emmy and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) The Junior Classics, Volume 9: Stories of To-day [Illustration: _Junior Classics_ THE·YOUNG·FOLKS’ SHELF·OF·BOOKS _P·F·Collier·&·Son Corporation_ _New York_] [Illustration: THERE WAS NO GOING HOME FOR HIM, EVEN TO A PRISON—page 292 _From the painting by Nella F. Binckley_] THE JUNIOR CLASSICS SELECTED AND ARRANGED BY WILLIAM PATTEN MANAGING EDITOR OF THE HARVARD CLASSICS INTRODUCTION BY CHARLES W. ELIOT, LL.D. PRESIDENT EMERITUS OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY WITH A READING GUIDE BY WILLIAM ALLAN NEILSON, Ph. D. PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT SMITH COLLEGE, NORTHAMPTON, MASS., SINCE 1917 VOLUME NINE _Stories of To-day_ [Illustration] P. F. COLLIER & SON CORPORATION NEW YORK Copyright, 1912 By P. F. COLLIER & SON Copyright, 1918 By P. F. COLLIER & SON