item: #1 of 17 id: 10327 author: Vance, Louis Joseph title: Alias the Lone Wolf date: None words: 95675 flesch: 77 summary: Yet one thing more Lanyard knew: that Liane suspected him of knowing more than he had told her. The difficulty is, Mr. Lanyard, he said persuasively, they have cost us so much, those jewels, in time and money and exertion, we can hardly be expected to sit still and see you walk off with them and say never a word in protection of our own interests. keywords: athenais; believe; captain; car; chair; château; course; day; days; de montalais; dear; delorme; door; duchemin; dupont; eyebrows; eyes; face; find; friend; good; half; hand; head; heart; hour; jewels; jules; lanyard; liane; liane delorme; life; look; lorgnes; madame; mademoiselle; making; man; matter; mean; men; mind; minutes; moment; monk; monsieur; monsieur duchemin; montalais; morning; nant; new; night; open; paris; phinuit; place; road; room; round; safe; tell; thing; thought; time; turn; voice; way; woman; world cache: 10327.txt plain text: 10327.txt item: #2 of 17 id: 10496 author: Vance, Louis Joseph title: Red Masquerade: Being the Story of the Lone Wolf's Daughter date: None words: 67986 flesch: 75 summary: The notion was amusing: Lanyard paid it the tribute of a quiet smile, in direct acknowledgment of which Prince Victor snarled: Six thousand guineas! And a hundred, Lanyard added. She had not thought, of course, of going down to dinner; she had, instead, sent Victor word simply that she begged to be excused from joining him for that meal. keywords: arms; black; café; chair; chinese; dark; daughter; day; door; dupont; end; eyes; face; father; find; girl; good; half; hand; head; heart; house; karslake; lanyard; life; lips; little; look; love; mama; man; matter; means; mind; moment; monsieur; night; nogam; number; prince victor; princess; princess sofia; room; saw; shaik; sir; smile; sofia; street; sturm; table; thought; thérèse; time; tsin; victor; voice; way; woman; word cache: 10496.txt plain text: 10496.txt item: #3 of 17 id: 26651 author: Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William) title: The Flaming Jewel date: None words: 67948 flesch: 92 summary: I When State Trooper Stormont rode up to Clinch's with Eve Strayer lying in his arms, Mike Clinch strode out of the motley crowd around the tavern, laid his rifle against a tree, and stretched forth his powerful hands to receive his stepchild. EPISODE THREE ON STAR PEAK I Mike Clinch regarded the jewels taken from José Quintana as legitimate loot acquired in war. keywords: clinch; darragh; dead; door; edge; eve; eyes; face; feet; fire; forest; girl; god; going; good; hal; hand; harrod; head; house; jake; kloon; lake; lannis; lay; left; leverett; like; man; men; mike; mike clinch; moment; packet; place; pond; quintana; rifle; right; sard; saw; silence; smith; star; state; stormont; time; trail; trooper; valley; voice; water; way; woods; young cache: 26651.txt plain text: 26651.txt item: #4 of 17 id: 30853 author: Bangs, John Kendrick title: Mrs. Raffles: Being the Adventures of an Amateur Crackswoman date: None words: 27261 flesch: 77 summary: Days went by and not another word was spoken on the subject of Jockobinski and the musicale, and I began to feel that at last Henriette had reached the end of her ingenuity--though for my own part I could not blame her if she failed to find some plausible way out of her disappointment. And, as usual, Henriette was right, for the next February when the beneficiaries of the Winter Fresh-Air Fund spent a month at Palm Beach, enjoying the best that favored spot afforded in the way of entertainment and diversion, not a word of criticism was advanced by anybody, although the party consisted solely of Mrs. Van Raffles, her maid, and Bunny, her butler. keywords: adventure; andrews; bunny; course; day; dear; dollars; gaster; good; gushington; henriette; house; innitt; moment; morning; mrs; new; newport; night; raffles; rockerbilt; room; scrappe; shadd; society; thing; time; van; way; woman; york cache: 30853.txt plain text: 30853.txt item: #5 of 17 id: 34369 author: Clark, Joan title: Penny Nichols and the Mystery of the Lost Key date: None words: 38807 flesch: 90 summary: Penny inquired. Penny inquired. keywords: away; caleb; door; girls; house; jacob; key; laponi; leeds; letter; man; max; mrs; nichols; penny; ridge; room; rosanna; thought; time; way; winters cache: 34369.txt plain text: 34369.txt item: #6 of 17 id: 41005 author: Le Queux, William title: The Great Court Scandal date: None words: 73054 flesch: 78 summary: Other men would have at least been proud to receive the thanks and decoration of a reigning sovereign, while he had utterly ignored them. Like many other men, he had commenced life as a small advocate in an obscure provincial town, but by dint of ingenious scheming and dishonest double-dealing he had wormed himself into the confidence of the old King, who regarded him as a necessity for the government of the country. keywords: bag; bourne; child; claire; court; crown; day; enemies; eyes; face; father; friend; good; hand; heart; highness; hinckeldeym; husband; ignatia; jewels; king; leitolf; leucha; life; love; low; majesty; man; men; moment; night; palace; people; princess; queen; room; royal; secret; time; treysa; truth; vienna; voice; woman cache: 41005.txt plain text: 41005.txt item: #7 of 17 id: 42813 author: Bryce, Charles, Mrs. title: Mrs. Vanderstein's jewels date: None words: 108093 flesch: 80 summary: You do not know Mrs. Vanderstein, Mr. Gimblet, interrupted Sir Gregory. To Madame Querterot, a person of no taste, who made no pretension of being fastidious, and who had, moreover, little sympathy with a passion for cleanliness when this was carried to exaggeration, the airy lightness of the place suggested the convent school of her youthful days; and, bringing again before her the figure of a stern sister superior who had been accustomed in those vanished times to deal out severe penalties to the youthful but constantly erring Justine, caused her invariably to enter Mrs. Vanderstein's bedroom after a quick intake of the breath on the threshold, as if she were about to plunge into an icy bath. Mrs. Vanderstein, ever the essence of punctuality, was ready for her on this particular evening, as she always was. keywords: 8vo; barbara; bert; come; course; crown; day; detective; door; eyes; face; friend; gimblet; girl; good; gregory; half; hand; head; help; house; idea; julie; ladies; lady; left; look; looking; madame; madame querterot; man; mind; miss; moment; money; morning; mother; mrs; night; people; place; poor; querterot; room; round; sidney; sir; sir gregory; street; tell; thing; thought; time; turner; vanderstein; way; white; window; woman; words cache: 42813.txt plain text: 42813.txt item: #8 of 17 id: 44980 author: Abbott, Wilbur Cortez title: Colonel Thomas Blood, Crown-stealer, 1618-1680 date: None words: 20634 flesch: 67 summary: Of great men it may truly be said, 'It does good only to look at them.' The explanation probably is that he was Thomas Hunt, Blood's son-in-law, but was called Blood by his father-in-law, and, like many men in that time, used either of the two names indifferently. keywords: army; blood; conspiracy; court; crown; day; duke; england; english; government; house; ireland; king; life; london; lord; man; men; new; ormond; parliament; party; place; story; time; war; way; years cache: 44980.txt plain text: 44980.txt item: #9 of 17 id: 47179 author: Matthews, Stanley R. title: Motor Matt's Mystery; or, Foiling a Secret Plot date: None words: 33278 flesch: 91 summary: =Carl Pretzel=, a cheerful and rollicking German lad, who is led by a fortunate accident to hook up with Motor Matt in double harness. Motor Matt, just turning into the yard of a small adobe house, heard the tremendous uproar and came to a startled halt. keywords: ash; boy; carl; come; der; don'd; dot; flier; fork; gregory; hank; know; left; letter; look; man; matt; mit; motor; oof; pearls; pringle; right; road; spangler; time; tomlinson; tonneau; und; vas; vat; way cache: 47179.txt plain text: 47179.txt item: #10 of 17 id: 53390 author: Matthews, Stanley R. title: Motor Matt's Mandarin; or, Turning a Trick for Tsan Ti date: None words: 33414 flesch: 89 summary: Certainly it was not a time to laugh but Motor Matt could hardly help it_] MOTOR STORIES THRILLING ADVENTURE MOTOR FICTION _Issued Weekly. =Matt King=, otherwise Motor Matt. keywords: balls; boys; buddha; bunce; car; chinaman; cord; cowboy; eye; goldstein; grattan; hand; joe; left; look; mandarin; matt; mcglory; money; motor; motor matt; pard; pryne; right; road; ruby; sailor; time; tsan; tsan ti; way cache: 53390.txt plain text: 53390.txt item: #11 of 17 id: 53466 author: Matthews, Stanley R. title: Motor Matt's Mariner; or, Filling the Bill for Bunce date: None words: 35058 flesch: 90 summary: Motor Matt was thrown roughly against the front seat and Bunce went into the air as though shot from a gun._] MOTOR STORIES THRILLING ADVENTURE MOTOR FICTION _Issued Weekly. =Matt King=, otherwise Motor Matt. keywords: -motor; away; box; boys; buddha; bunce; catskill; cowboy; eye; eyes; good; grattan; hand; head; joe; man; mandarin; matt; mcglory; motor matt; new; pardo; place; right; ruby; speeder; time; tsan; way; york cache: 53466.txt plain text: 53466.txt item: #12 of 17 id: 53533 author: Matthews, Stanley R. title: Motor Matt's Double Trouble; or, The Last of the Hoodoo date: None words: 34537 flesch: 87 summary: [Illustration: _Stop! shouted Motor Matt laying back on the end of the rope_] MOTOR STORIES THRILLING ADVENTURE MOTOR FICTION _Issued Weekly. =Matt King=, otherwise Motor Matt. keywords: -motor; banks; barn; boys; bunce; car; chapter; chinaman; cowboy; eye; eyes; farmer; good; grattan; hands; know; look; mandarin; martin; matt; mcglory; motor matt; pardo; red; road; ruby; sam; sam wing; tell; time; tsan; tsan ti; way; wing cache: 53533.txt plain text: 53533.txt item: #13 of 17 id: 61872 author: Baker, Charles A. title: Treasure of Triton date: None words: 2903 flesch: 88 summary: Larsen emerged from the _Wolf Cub_ carrying his oxy-hydrogen cutting torch, a heavy load even in the light gravity of Triton. TREASURE OF TRITON By CHARLES A. BAKER The Space Patrol and the terrible guards of Triton pursued Wolf Larsen. keywords: bort; eye; larsen; torch; triton cache: 61872.txt plain text: 61872.txt item: #14 of 17 id: 8931 author: Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) title: The Gem Collector date: None words: 33573 flesch: 92 summary: In other surroundings, Mr. Patrick McEachern would have known how to deal with his young acquaintance, Mr. Jimmy Pitt. A detective, sir! Said he was going into the room to keep guard. keywords: blunt; chames; dat; good; hand; house; jimmy; lady; look; man; mceachern; mind; molly; moment; money; new; pitt; right; room; sir; spennie; spike; thing; thomas; time; want; way; wesson; york cache: 8931.txt plain text: 8931.txt item: #15 of 17 id: 9378 author: Vance, Louis Joseph title: The Lone Wolf: A Melodrama date: None words: 78031 flesch: 76 summary: _Your_ room, Mr. Lanyard! Her tone so convincingly voiced shame and horror that his heart misgave him. Mr. Lanyard, I--I-- Her voice faltered and broke off in a short, dry sob, and she drew back with an effect of instinctive distaste for public emotion. keywords: adventurer; american; away; bannon; bed; bourke; business; car; corner; course; dark; de morbihan; door; eyes; face; fact; find; girl; good; half; hand; head; hour; house; lanyard; leave; left; life; lone; look; madame; man; marcel; mind; minutes; moment; monsieur; morbihan; night; omber; open; pack; paris; place; popinot; roddy; room; round; self; street; table; thought; time; troyon; understand; way; wertheimer; window; wolf; woman cache: 9378.txt plain text: 9378.txt item: #16 of 17 id: 9779 author: Vance, Louis Joseph title: The Black Bag date: None words: 95553 flesch: 79 summary: These three words have come to connote in our understanding so much of human misery, that to Mr. Kirkwood they seemed to epitomize absolutely, if not happily, the various circumstances attendant upon the predicament wherein he found himself. Yes, Mr. Calendar--? Are you--ah--busy, Mr. Kirkwood? Are you, Mr. Calendar? keywords: adventurer; air; alethea; american; bag; boat; brentwick; brigantine; cab; cabby; calendar; captain; care; chair; corner; course; dear; door; dorothy; eyes; face; fact; father; feet; girl; good; half; hallam; hand; head; heart; hobbs; hour; house; kirkwood; know; left; lips; little; london; man; matter; mind; minutes; miss; moment; mrs; mulready; night; number; philip; place; pocket; room; round; sir; stairs; street; stryker; table; think; thought; time; train; voice; waiting; way; window; woman; world; young cache: 9779.txt plain text: 9779.txt item: #17 of 17 id: 9908 author: Vance, Louis Joseph title: The False Faces: Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf date: None words: 79579 flesch: 75 summary: I'd like to ask Mr. Lanyard a question. One after another Lanyard, scanning the entries, found these names: Edmund O'Reilly--Detroit Arturo Velasco--Buenos Aires Bartlett Putnam--Philadelphia Cecelia Brooke--London Emil Dressier--Genève Half inclined to commit the imprudence of sending a name up to Miss Brooke--any name but André Duchemin, Michael Lanyard, or Anthony Ember--together with a message artfully worded to fix her interest without giving comfort to the enemy, should it chance to go astray, the adventurer hesitated by the desk; and of a sudden was satisfied that such a move would be not only injudicious but waste of time; for, now that he paused to think of it, he surmised that the young woman--young and good-looking, on Walker's word--who had called to see Colonel Stanistreet was none other than this same Cecelia Brooke. keywords: assyrian; blensop; boat; body; british; brooke; captain; cecelia; chair; colonel; crane; dark; day; deck; deep; door; duchemin; ekstrom; end; eyes; face; find; german; girl; good; half; hand; head; hour; karl; lanyard; lieutenant; life; look; man; matter; mind; miss; moment; monsieur; new; night; officer; open; paper; pistol; port; prussian; room; round; safe; saw; second; secret; service; ship; sir; stanistreet; stateroom; table; time; turn; voice; wall; way; wolf; woman; work cache: 9908.txt plain text: 9908.txt