Aladdin & Co.: A Romance of Yankee Magic

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Which is of Introductory Character. Our National Convention met in Chicago that year, and I was one of the delegates. I had looked forward to it with keen expectancy. I was now, a...

Still Introductory. The great throng from the hall surged along the streets in an Amazonian network of streams, gathering in boiling lakes in the great hotels, dribbling off into ...

Reminiscentially Autobiographical. This Jimmie Elkins was several years older than I; but that did not prevent us, as boys, from being fast friends. At seventeen he had a coterie ...

Jim discovers his Coral Island. There has long been abroad in the world a belief that events which bear some controlling relation to one's destiny are announced by premonition, so...

We Reach the Atoll. So we journeyed on to Duluth, to St. Paul and Minneapolis, and to the cities on the Missouri. It was at one of those recurrent periods when the fever of materi...

I am Inducted into the Cave, and Enlist. "Here's the cave," said Jim, at the door of his office, next morning. "As prospective joint-proprietor and co-malefactor, I bid you welcom...

We make our Landing. Had I known how cordially our neighbors would greet our return, or how many of them would view our departure with apparently sincere regret, I might have been...

A Welcome to Wall Street and Us. "Welcome!" intoned Captain Tolliver, with his hat in his hand, bowing low to Mrs. Barslow. "Welcome, Madam and suh, in the capacity of Lattimorean...

I Go Aboard and We Unfurl the Jolly Roger. "We must act, and act at once!" said the Captain, his voice thrilling with intensity. "This piece of property will be gone befo' night! ...

We Dedicate Lynhurst Park. The Hindu adept sometimes suspends before the eyes of his subject a bright ball of carnelian or crystal, in the steady contemplation of which the sensit...

The Empress and Sir John Meet Again. The company emerged from the tent into the enchanted outdoors of the star-dotted valley. The moon rode high, and flooded the glades with silve...

In which the Burdens of wealth begin to fall upon Us. If the town be considered as a quiescent body pursuing its unluminous way in space, Mr. Elkins may stand for the impinging pl...

A Sitting or Two in the Game with the World and Destiny. Our game at Lattimore was one of those absorbing ones in which the sunlight of next morning sifts through the blinds befor...

In which we Learn Something of Railroads, and Attend Some Remarkable Christenings. And so, in due time, it came to pass that, our Aladdin having rubbed the magic ring with which h...

Some Affairs of the Heart Considered in their Relation to Dollars and Cents. Antonia was sitting in a hammock. Josie and Alice were not far away watching Cecil Barr-Smith, who was...

Some Things which Happened in Our Halcyon Days. If there was any tension among us just after the house-warming, it was not noticeable. Mr. Cornish and Mr. Elkins seemed unaware of...

Relating to the Disposition of the Captives. It was not later than the next day but one, that I met Giddings, alert, ingratiating, and natty as ever. "When am I to have the third...

The Going Away of Laura and Clifford, and the Departure of Mr. Trescott. "Thet little quirly thing there," said Mr. Trescott, spreading a map out on my library table and pointing ...

In Which Events Resume their Usual Course--at a Somewhat Accelerated Pace. The death of Mr. Trescott was treated with that consideration which the affairs of the locally prominent...

I Twice Explain the Condition of the Trescott Estate. Nothing had remained unchanged in Lattimore, and our old offices in the First National Bank edifice had long since been vacat...

Of Conflicts, Within and Without. I have often wished that some sort of a business weather-chart might be periodically got out, showing conditions all over the world. It seems to ...

In which I Win my Great Victory. My plan was our old one--to see both Pendleton and Halliday, and, if possible, to allow both to know of the fact that we had two strings to our bo...

The "Dutchman's Mill" and What It Ground. We sat in conclave about the table. I saw by the lined faces of Elkins and Hinckley that I had come back to a closely-beleaguered camp, w...

The Beginning of the End. Court parties and court factions are always known to the populace, even down to the groom and scullions. So the defection of Cornish soon became a matter...

That Last Weird Battle in the West. There was still some remnant of daylight left when we stepped from a closed carriage at the State Street crossing and walked to the train prepa...

The End--and a Beginning. As to our desperate run from Lattimore to the place where it came to an end in a junk-heap which had been once an engine, a car reduced to matchwood, a b...