by Richard Harding Davis
The Old Time Journalist will tell you that the best reporter is the one who works his way up. He holds that the only way to start is as a printer’s devil or as an office … Read the rest
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The Spy
by Richard Harding Davis
My going to Valencia was entirely an accident. But the more often I stated that fact, the more satisfied was everyone at the capital that I had come on some secret mission. Even the venerable politician … Read the rest
The Nature Faker
by Richard Harding Davis
Richard Herrick was a young man with a gentle disposition, much money, and no sense of humor. His object in life was to marry Miss Catherweight. For three years she had tried to persuade him this … Read the rest
The Amateur
by Richard Harding Davis
It was February off the Banks, and so thick was the weather that, on the upper decks, one could have driven a sleigh. Inside the smoking-room Austin Ford, as securely sheltered from the blizzard as though … Read the rest
The Consul
by Richard Harding Davis
For over forty years, in one part of the world or another, old man Marshall had, served his country as a United States consul. He had been appointed by Lincoln. For a quarter of a century … Read the rest
The Frame Up
by Richard Harding Davis
When the voice over the telephone promised to name the man who killed Hermann Banf, District Attorney Wharton was up- town lunching at Delmonico’s. This was contrary to his custom and a concession to Hamilton Cutler, … Read the rest
The Log of the “Jolly Polly”
by Richard Harding Davis
Temptation came to me when I was in the worst possible position to resist it.
It is a way temptation has. Whenever I swear off drinking invariably I am invited to an ushers’ dinner. Whenever I … Read the rest
The Make-Believe Man
by Richard Harding Davis
I had made up my mind that when my vacation came I would spend it seeking adventures. I have always wished for adventures, but, though I am old enough–I was twenty-five last October–and have always gone … Read the rest
The Man Who Could Not Lose
by Richard Harding Davis
The Carters had married in haste and refused to repent at leisure. So blindly were they in love, that they considered their marriage their greatest asset. The rest of the world, as represented by mutual friends, … Read the rest
The Messengers
by Richard Harding Davis
When Ainsley first moved to Lone Lake Farm all of his friends asked him the same question. They wanted to know, if the farmer who sold it to him had abandoned it as worthless, how one … Read the rest