Twenty-Three Stories by Twenty and Three Authors

TWENTY-THREE STORIES

BY

TWENTY AND THREE AUTHORS

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

NEW YORK MCMXXIV

COPYRIGHT, 1924, BY

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

CONTENTS
[Kerfol]Edith Wharton
[The Chink and the Child]Thomas Burke
[The Nomad]Robert Hichens
[The Crucifixion of The Outcast]W. B. Yeats
[The Drums of Kairwan]The Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
[A Life—A Bowl of Rice]L. De Bra
[Hodge]Elinor Mordaunt
[Hatteras]A. W. Mason
[The Ransom]Cutliffe Hyne
[The Other Twin]Edwin Pugh
[The Narrow Way]R. Ellis Roberts
[Davy Jones’s Gift]John Masefield
[The Call of the Hand]Louis Golding
[The Sentimental Mortgage]Arthur Lynch
[Captain Sharkey]A. Conan Doyle
[Violence]Algernon Blackwood
[The Reward of Enterprise]Ward Muir
[Grear’s Dam]Morley Roberts
[The King of Maleka]H. De Vere Stacpoole
[Alleluia]T. F. Powys
[The Monkey’s Paw]W. W. Jacobs
[The Creatures]Walter de la Mare
[The Taipan]W. Somerset Maugham

KERFOL

By EDITH WHARTON

From Xingu and Other Stories, by Edith Wharton. Copyright, 1917, by Charles Scribner’s Sons.