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The Crime of Henry Vane: A Study with a Moral

The Crime of Henry Vane: A Study with a Moral

by Frederic Jesup Stimson

John shrugged his shoulders and began. Of course, I do not mean that he told the whole story just as I have written it. He related the bare facts, with little comment and without conversations. Whether you condemned the man or excused him, John thought, his story might be understood, even if his folly were not forgiven. The crowd at the club did ne..

The Residuary Legatee

The Residuary Legatee

by Frederic Jesup Stimson

On the morning of August 14th, in this last summer, Mr. Austin May alighted at the little Cypress Street station of the Boston & Albany Railroad, and, accompanied only by a swarthy and adroit valet, and a very handsome St. Bernard dog, got into the somewhat antiquated family “carryall” which awaited him, and drove away. May was a stranger to th..