item: #1 of 13 id: 17762 author: Pinkerton, Allan title: The Burglar's Fate, and The Detectives date: None words: 58258 flesch: 68 summary: Young men of the city, dressed well and apparently respectable, yet all yielding to their passion for strong drink and the charms of lewdness and indecency. When he returned from college and established his business in his native town, he became the leader of a set of fast young men, and his office was the nightly resort of his associates, where they played and gambled frequently, until the morning hours drove them to their homes. keywords: bank; business; chapter; chicago; chief; city; crime; day; days; detective; dollars; duncan; edwards; eugene; everman; friend; geneva; good; hand; home; hotel; house; information; journey; lady; leave; manning; matter; men; money; morning; mrs; newton; night; office; pearson; place; robbery; room; silby; story; time; town; way; wife; william; young cache: 17762.txt plain text: 17762.txt item: #2 of 13 id: 19695 author: Hall, Angelo title: Forty-one Thieves: A Tale of California date: None words: 32590 flesch: 83 summary: It seemed odd to think of old man Palmer going upon such a mission. He exchanged glances with Keeler which seemed to mean that their business should be regarded as strictly private, although Henry Francis was the friend of both, and had won the confidence and affection of old man Palmer. keywords: bailey; business; california; cañon; city; collins; cummins; day; days; flat; francis; gold; good; john; keeler; life; mamie; man; mat; men; money; moore; mountains; nevada; old; palmer; right; robert; stage; thought; time; years cache: 19695.txt plain text: 19695.txt item: #3 of 13 id: 20985 author: Warren, George A. title: The Banner Boy Scouts on a Tour; or, The Mystery of Rattlesnake Mountain date: None words: 68800 flesch: 85 summary: Food was found, also some bottles of liquor, which latter Paul took great pleasure in immediately smashing. In the preceding volume, The Banner Boy Scouts; or, The Struggle for Leadership, I endeavored to interest my readers in an account of the numerous trials and adventures that befell Paul and his chums when forming the first Red Fox Patrol. keywords: away; bobolink; boys; camp; chapter; chum; close; course; day; door; fellows; find; fire; good; gordon; half; hand; head; hold; jack; joe; jud; leader; look; man; mountain; night; patrol; paul; scouts; stanhope; ted; tent; things; thought; time; troop; wallace; want; water; way; william cache: 20985.txt plain text: 20985.txt item: #4 of 13 id: 22155 author: Pinkerton, Allan title: The Expressman and the Detective date: None words: 75200 flesch: 80 summary: In a second, Mrs. Maroney grasped a pitcher and smashed it over Josh.'s skull. As far as they could find out, Mrs. Maroney was a widow, with one daughter, Flora Irvin, who was about seven or eight years old. keywords: company; cox; day; express; flora; forest; friends; good; hotel; house; husband; imbert; jenkintown; josh; letter; madam; madam imbert; man; maroney; money; montgomery; morning; mrs; new; office; philadelphia; place; porter; rivers; roch; room; time; way; white; wife; york cache: 22155.txt plain text: 22155.txt item: #5 of 13 id: 23208 author: Long, Helen Beecher title: How Janice Day Won date: None words: 67131 flesch: 91 summary: No noisier or more ill-favored crew, Janice Day thought, could ever have been gathered under the roof of the Inn, than she now saw as she pushed open the screen. Janice wondered then--and she wondered afterward--if this unexplained anxiety connected Hopewell Drugg with the dances at the Lake View Inn. CHAPTER V THE BLUEBIRD--FOR HAPPINESS Could it be possible that Janice Day had alighted from Walky Dexter's old carryall at the little grocery store for still another purpose? keywords: aunt; bowman; coins; day; dear; drugg; elder; eyes; father; frank; girl; going; good; haley; haw; home; hopewell; inn; janice; janice day; jason; joe; lem; little; man; marty; massey; money; moore; mrs; narnay; nelson; parraday; polktown; poor; right; rill; school; store; ter; thing; thought; time; uncle; walky; way; woman; young cache: 23208.txt plain text: 23208.txt item: #6 of 13 id: 32404 author: Defoe, Daniel title: Second Thoughts are Best: Or a Further Improvement of a Late Scheme to Prevent Street Robberies date: None words: 5028 flesch: 65 summary: Let those go through byways, and in the dark, whose deeds are so; I am for providing security for honest men, and obstacle for rogues. But to strip him of his borrowed plumes, these are to remind the public, that about six months ago, in a treatise, entituled, Augusta Triumphans: or, the Way to make London the most flourishing City in the Universe, I laid down a plain and practicable scheme for the total suppression and prevention of street robberies, which scheme has been approved of by several learned and judicious persons. keywords: houses; king; majesty; price; public; scheme; street; watchman; way cache: 32404.txt plain text: 32404.txt item: #7 of 13 id: 32795 author: Green, Anna Katharine title: Three Thousand Dollars date: None words: 13022 flesch: 90 summary: They don't care very much about old men, and if I have not a decent show of money by half-past eleven this morning the orders are to knock him on the head. Mr. Fellows was not pleased to see him. keywords: chapter; door; eyes; father; fellows; grace; look; man; room; safe; stoughton cache: 32795.txt plain text: 32795.txt item: #8 of 13 id: 33790 author: De Vet, Charles V. title: Delayed Action date: None words: 6418 flesch: 90 summary: Now I've got a little business to attend to with Mr. Johnson, and I don't want any interference. Right now, he said, I am interested in seeing that Mr. Johnson remains in good health. keywords: company; hawkes; johnson; man; right; strip; time; years cache: 33790.txt plain text: 33790.txt item: #9 of 13 id: 38981 author: Futrelle, Jacques title: The Chase of the Golden Plate date: None words: 33402 flesch: 85 summary: Well, for some reason I don't know, Dollie's father objects to Mr. Herbert's attentions to her--as a matter of fact, Mr. Meredith has absolutely prohibited them--but she's a young, headstrong girl, and I fear that, although she had outwardly yielded to her father's wishes, she had clandestinely kept up a correspondence with Mr. Herbert. A conversation Mr. Hatch had with Mr. Herbert immediately after Mr. Herbert saw Miss Meredith practically confirms it. keywords: burglar; detective; dick; dollie; eyes; girl; hand; hatch; herbert; machine; mallory; man; meredith; miss; moment; plate; police; randolph; reporter; scientist; thinking; time cache: 38981.txt plain text: 38981.txt item: #10 of 13 id: 54195 author: Alger, Horatio, Jr. title: Grit; or, The Young Boatman of Pine Point date: None words: 53279 flesch: 90 summary: Can't you thank Mr. Grit? Good afternoon, Mr. Grit. keywords: bank; boat; boy; brandon; business; carver; courtney; dollars; friend; good; graves; grit; house; johnson; man; money; mother; mrs; phil; sir; thought; time; travers; way cache: 54195.txt plain text: 54195.txt item: #11 of 13 id: 54896 author: Phillpotts, Eden title: My Adventure in the Flying Scotsman; A Romance of London and North-Western Railway Shares date: None words: 9055 flesch: 74 summary: It was a Spartan entry upon life for young Joshua Beakbane and myself; but whereas I thrived under the puritanic and colourless regime, Mr. Beakbane's own son, a youth by nature prone to vicious habits and evil communications, chafed beneath the iron rule, which only became more unbending in consequence. When he was twenty-one years of age, Joshua Beakbane, in a fit of mad folly, that to me is scarcely conceivable, ran away from the Farm, taking with him about five hundred pounds of his father's money. keywords: beakbane; half; joshua; life; london; man; moment; night; plenderleath; room; sorrell; time cache: 54896.txt plain text: 54896.txt item: #12 of 13 id: 61486 author: Castlemon, Harry title: The Steel Horse: The Rambles of a Bicycle date: None words: 82799 flesch: 86 summary: As I looked at it, it did not seem possible that adventures like Roy Sheldon's, and an exploit such as he had performed, could be kept covered up for any length of time (I have been told that such things have a way of leaking out somewhere), nor was it at all probable that every one who heard of them would be as considerate of Roy's wishes as the _ Roy's bike was so excited over what might have happened if we had found that railroad half an hour later, that he could not tell a straight story; but this is what I managed to draw from him after much patient and ingenious questioning: When Joe and I disappeared in one direction and Arthur Hastings and his wheel sped swiftly away in the other, Roy Sheldon seated himself upon the rock with his lamp in his hand, and whistled softly, keeping time with his heels, for a full minute; then he grew tired of doing nothing, jumped off the rock and made a circuit of it, looking closely at it on all sides. keywords: arthur; away; boys; course; friends; good; hand; home; island; joe; left; little; look; man; matt; men; mind; money; night; place; road; rowe; roy; run; saw; sheldon; shelly; ship; thing; thought; time; tom; tony; want; way; wayring; white; willis cache: 61486.txt plain text: 61486.txt item: #13 of 13 id: 61781 author: Kummer, Frederic Arnold title: Star Pirate date: None words: 7860 flesch: 90 summary: Uncle John swung about, noticing the girl for the first time as she stepped from the shadows. And how did she know about me, about Uncle John? keywords: door; father; gun; john; palladium; room; safe; taon; uncle; verlis cache: 61781.txt plain text: 61781.txt