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Title: Golden Stories
A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers

Author: Various

Release Date: September 22, 2006 [EBook #19356]

Language: English

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Golden Stories

A SELECTION OF THE BEST FICTION
BY THE FOREMOST WRITERS

[Illustration]

NEW YORK
THE SHORT STORIES COMPANY
1909

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION INTO FOREIGN
LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN

COPYRIGHT, 1908-1909, BY THE SHORT STORIES COMPANY

I

THE NIGHT EXPRESS

The Story of a Bank Robbery

By FRED M. WHITE

A PELTING rain volleyed against the great glass dome of the terminus, a
roaring wind boomed in the roof. Passengers, hurrying along the
platform, glistened in big coats and tweed caps pulled close over their
ears. By the platform the night express was drawn up--a glittering mass
of green and gold, shimmering with electric lights, warm, inviting, and
cozy.

Most of the corridor carriages and sleeping berths were full, for it was
early in October still, and the Scotch exodus was not just yet. A few
late comers were looking anxiously out for the guard. He came presently,
an alert figure in blue and silver. Really, he was very sorry. But the
train was unusually crowded, and he was doing the best he could. He was
perfectly aware of the fact that his questioners represented a Cabinet
Minister on