1909
Miss Sally's Letter 1910
My Lady Jane 1915
Robert Turner's Revenge 1909
The Fillmore Elderberries 1909
The Finished Story 1912
The Garden of Spices 1918
The Girl and the Photograph 1915
The Gossip of Valley View 1910
The Letters 1910
The Life-Book of Uncle Jesse 1909
The Little Black Doll 1909
The Man on the Train 1914
The Romance of Jedediah 1912
The Tryst of the White Lady 1922
Uncle Richard's New Year Dinner 1910
White Magic 1921

A Golden Wedding

The land dropped abruptly down from the gate, and a thick, shrubby
growth of young apple orchard almost hid the little weather-grey house
from the road. This was why the young man who opened the sagging gate
could not see that it was boarded up, and did not cease his cheerful
whistling until he had pressed through the crowding trees and found
himself almost on the sunken stone doorstep over which in olden days
honeysuckle had been wont to arch. Now only a few straggling,
uncared-for vines clung forlornly to the shingles, and the windows
were, as has been said, all boarded up.

The whistle died on the young man's lips and an expression of blank
astonishment and dismay settled down on his face--a good, kindly,
honest face it was, although perhaps it did not betoken any pronounced
mental gifts on the part of its owner.

"What can have happened?" he said to himself. "Uncle Tom and Aunt
Sally can't be dead--I'd have seen their deaths in the paper if they
was. And I'd a-thought if they'd moved away it'd been printed too.
They can't have been gone long--that flower-bed must have been made up
last spring. Well, this is a kind of setback for a fellow. Here I've
been tramping all the way from the station, a-thinking how good it
would be to see Aunt Sally's sweet old face again, and hear Uncle
Tom's laugh, and all I find is a boarded-up house going to se