Four men sat about a table on the sidewalk in front of the Café of the Nations in the High Street of Cádiz and talked business. Leon Gonsalez was one, Poiccart was another, George Manfred was a notabl...

On the fourteenth day of August 190‒ a tiny paragraph appeared at the foot of an unimportant page in London’s most sober journal to the effect that the secretary of state for foreign affairs had been ...

Somebody⁠—was it Mr. Gladstone?⁠—placed it on record that there is nothing quite so dangerous, quite so ferocious, quite so terrifying, as a mad sheep. Similarly, as we know, there is no person quite ...

To say that England was stirred to its depths⁠—to quote more than one leading article on the subject⁠—by the extraordinary occurrence in the House of Commons, would be stating the matter exactly. The ...

When an advertisement appeared in the Newspaper Proprietor announcing that there was⁠— “For Sale: An old-established zinco-engraver’s business with a splendid new plant and a stock of chemicals,” ever...

The editor of the Megaphone, returning from dinner, met the super-chief on the stairs. The super-chief, boyish of face, withdrew his mind from the mental contemplation of a new project (“Megaphone Hou...

Blood-red placards, hoarse newsboys, overwhelming headlines, and column after column of leaded type told the world next day how near the Four had been to capture. Men in the train leaned forward, thei...

There was yet another missive to be handed to the doomed minister. In the last he had received there had occurred the sentence: “One more warning you shall receive, and, so that we may be assured it s...

The final warning was brief and to the point: We allow you until tomorrow evening to reconsider your position in the matter of the Aliens Extradition Bill. If by six o’clock no announcement is made in...

“You cursed dolt, you infernal fool!” stormed the detective, catching Billy by the collar and shaking him like a rat. “Do you mean to tell me that you had one of the Four Just Men in your hand, and di...

A passenger leisurely selecting his compartment during the wait at Kensington opened a carriage door and staggered back coughing. A solicitous porter and an alarmed station official ran forward and pu...

The Court was again crowded today in anticipation of the evidence of the assistant-commissioner of police and Sir Francis Katling, the famous surgeon. Before the proceedings recommenced the coroner re...

Falmouth sat on the opposite side of the chief commissioner’s desk, his hands clasped before him. On the blotting-pad lay a thin sheet of grey notepaper. The commissioner picked it up again and reread...