My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory--an office of such majesty that it concentrated in itself the duties and dignities of Treasurer, Comptroller, Secretary of State, and Acting Governor in the Governor's absence.

"Jeeves," I said, "may I speak frankly?"

IN the public room of the Sixth National Bank at Bar Harbor in Maine, Lieutenant Alan Drummond, H.M.S. "Consternation," stood aside to give precedence to a lady.

It was in the spring of the year 1894 that all London was interested, and the fashionable world dismayed, by the murder of the Honourable Ronald Adair under most unusual and inexplicable circumstances.

The Rome Express, the _direttissimo_, or most direct, was approaching Paris one morning in March, when it became known to the occupants of the sleeping-car that there was something amiss, very much amiss, in the car.

I have often wondered, when viewing a modern passenger coach, with its palace cars, its sleeping and dining cars, if those who cross the "Great American Desert," from the Mississippi to the Pacific in four days, realize the hardships, dangers and privatio

The Signora had no business to do it," said Miss Bartlett, "no business at all.

I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull: he got a good estate by merchandise, and leaving off his trade, lived afterwards at York, fro

The old stage coach was rumbling along the dusty road that runs from Maplewood to Riverboro. The day was as warm as midsummer, though it was only the middle of May, and Mr. Jeremiah Cobb was favoring the horses as much as possible, yet never losing sight of the fact that he carried the mail.

In einer Einstellung in Fatih Akins aktuellem Kinofilm „Auf der anderen Seite“ blickt der Zuschauer geradewegs in eine deutschsprachige Buchhandlung irgendwo in Istanbul, deren Regale mit einigen Paletten dtv-Taschenbüchern – inklusive der fast vergessenen 1984er Ausgabe von Jörg Krichbaums Roman „Das Nebelzelt“ – ausstaffiert sind, und sieht in der Mitte des Bildes einen vollgestapelten Büchertisch auf dem schlafend eine Katze thront.

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