The Lion and the Unicorn Prentiss had a long lease on the house, and because it stood in Jermyn Street the upper floors were, as a matter of course, turned into lodgings for single gentlemen; and because Prentiss was a Florist to the Queen, he placed a lion and unicorn over his flower-shop, just in front of the middle window on the first floor. By stretching a little, each of them could see into the win dow just beyond him, and could hear all that was said inside; and such things as they saw and heard during the reign of Captain Carrington, who moved in at the same time they did By day the...

The Lost House by Richard Harding Davis. Austin Ford, the London correspondent of the New York Republic, is spending some idle time in the American Embassy chatting with the Second Secretary, when suddenly a note is brought in. This note is an appeal for help, found in the gutter in a dark alley. The writer claims to be a young girl, who is kept against her will locked up in a lunatic asylum by her uncle. Although the Second Secretary tries to convince him that there is nothing to it, the journalist is determined to follow the lead. Richard Harding Davis (April 18, 1864 - April 11, 1916) was...

-It is so good of you to come early,- said Mrs. Porter, as Alice Langham entered the drawing-room. -I want to ask a favor of you. I'm sure you won't mind. I would ask one of the debutantes, except that they're always so cross if one puts them next to men they don't know and who can't help them, and so I thought I'd just ask you, you're so good-natured. You don't mind, do you?- -I mind being called good-natured,- said Miss Langham, smiling. -Mind what, Mrs. Porter?- she asked. -He is a friend of George's,- Mrs. Porter explained, vaguely. -He's a cowboy. It seems he was very civil to George...