Guy de Maupassant
GREAT
SHORT STORIES
Edited by William Patten
A NEW COLLECTION
OF FAMOUS EXAMPLES
FROM THE LITERATURES
OF FRANCE,
ENGLAND AND AMERICA
VOLUME III
ROMANCE &
ADVENTURE
P. F. COLLIER & SON
NEW YORK
COPYRIGHT 1906
BY P. F. COLLIER & SON
TABLE OF CONTENTS
[THE ATTACK ON THE MILL] By Emile Zola
[THE VENUS OF ILLE] By Prosper Merimee
[THE PAVILION ON THE LINKS] By Robert Louis Stevenson
[THE PRISONERS] By Guy de Maupassant
[THE SIEGE OF BERLIN] By Alphonse Daudet
[THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING] By Rudyard Kipling
[THE BLACK PEARL] By Victorien Sardon
[THE PRISONER OF ASSIOUT] By Grant Allen
[THE SMUGGLERS OF THE CLONE] By S. R. Crockett
[THE MYSTERIOUS MANSION] By Honore de Balzac
[A TERRIBLY STRANGE BED] By Wilkie Collins
[THE CAPTURE OF BILL SIKES] By Charles Dickens
[THE POSTMISTRESS OF LAUREL RUN] By Bret Harte
[THE CAPTAIN'S VICES] By Francois Coppee
[RAPPACCINI'S DAUGHTER] By Nathaniel Hawthorne
[ZODOMIRSKY'S DUEL] By Alexandre Dumas
[THE COURTING OF T'NOWHEAD'S BELL] By James Matthew Barrie
[THE RYNARD GOLD REEF COMPANY, LTD.] By Sir Walter Besant