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THE GODS IN THE MACHINE On the second Sunday after their return from Antelope, Bill Cannon resolved to dedicate the afternoon to paying calls. This, at least, was what he told his daughter at luncheo…
BERNY MAKES A DISCOVERY It was near eleven o’clock on that same Sunday morning, when Berny, wrappered and heavy-eyed, emerged from her room. She shuffled down the passage to the dining-room, sending …
THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL The conversation with her old friend had upset Mrs. Ryan. These were grievances she did not talk of to all the world, and the luxury of such plain speaking was paid for by a re-a…
THE GOD DESCENDS Two days after this momentous combination of her enemies, Berny was sitting in the parlor of her flat, writing a letter. It was three o’clock in the afternoon and she had just dresse…
THE MOONLIGHT NIGHT A few nights after this, there was a full moon. Dominick, walking home from the bank, saw it at the end of the street’s vista, a large, yellowish-pink disk floating up into the tw…
FAMILY AFFAIRS Every summer afternoon the trade winds blow through San Francisco, winging their way across miles of chill, salt sea, and striking the bulwarked city with a boisterous impact. The long…
A CUT AND A CONFESSION Berny was extremely unsettled. She had never been in such a condition of worry and indecision. She was at once depressed and elated, triumphant and cast down, all in a bubble o…
BUFORD’S GOOD LUCK In his “Klondike Monologue” at the Orpheum, Buford, the actor, made a sudden and unexpected hit. The morning after his first appearance, both Dominick and Berny read in the paper e…
ROSE’S POINT OF VIEW The following Sunday, at ten o’clock in the morning, Dominick noiselessly descended the stairs of the flat and let himself out into the street. He had had a sleepless night, and …
THE LITTLE SPIDER Berny had been turning over in her mind the advantages of accepting the money—had been letting herself dwell upon the delights of possible possession—when at the Sunday dinner that …
