The Signal part 2
“You are Ivanov?” he said.
“Yes, your Excellency.”
“How do you come to be here?”
Semyon told him all.
“Where are you off to?”
“I cannot tell you, sir.”
“Idiot!...
The Signal part 1
Vsevolod Garshin (1855-1888)
Garshin was all his life subject to melancholia. His work, consisting of only a score of stories, was influenced by his condition,...
Supply and Demand part 8
The dust weighed before you, and taken at sixteen dollars the ounco the highest price on the Gaudymala coast.`
“Then the crowd disperses all of...
Supply and Demand part 7
`“I`ll tell you what you are,` says I. `You`re a plain, contemptible miser. You preach supply and you forget demand. Now, supply,` I goes...
Supply and Demand part 6
“`Tell `em, says I to McClintock, `it ain`t money I want tell `em I`ll take gold-dust. Tell `em I`ll allow `em sixteen dollars an...
Supply and Demand part 5
“`I conquered `em, spectacularly,` goes on King Shane, `and then I’ went at `em with economical politics, law, sleight-of-hand, and a kind of New...
Supply and Demand part 4
“He leads me into the biggest house, and sets the chairs and a kind of a drink the color of milk. It was the...
Supply and Demand part 3
“After this man and me got through our conversation, which left him dry of information, I shook hands with him and told him I...
Supply and Demand part 2
“I heard it from a king,” said Finch “the white king of a tribe of Indians in South America.”
I was interested but not surprised....
Supply and Demand part 1
O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) (1862 1910)
William Sydney Porter who wrote under the pen-name “O. Henry” was born at Greensboro, N. C., in 1862....
