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working-out of a story overlap in such a manner that its development
according to a prescribed plan is not apparent.

[Illustration]

Small _c_ is sometimes called the crisis, being the point at which the
action is most intense and begins to turn toward the end.

IV

LIST OF REPRESENTATIVE SHORT-STORIES

1. ALDRICH: Marjorie Daw.

2. Quite So.

3. ANDREWS: Amici.

4. The Glory of the Commonplace.

5. A Good Samaritan.

6. BUNNER: "As One Having Authority."

7. Love in Old Cloathes.

8. BUNNER AND MATTHEWS: Documents in the Case.

9. CABLE: Posson Jone.

10. CHILD: The Man in the Shadow.

11. CLEMENS: Jumping Frog.

12. COBB: To the Editor of the Sun.

13. COLCORD: The Game of Life and Death.

14. DAVIS, R. H.: The Bar Sinister.

15. Gallegher.

16. The Lion and the Unicorn.

17. DOYLE: The Red-Headed League.

18. A Scandal in Bohemia.

19. The Striped Chest.

20. Through the Veil.

21. GARLAND: The Return of a Private.

22. GEROULD: On the Staircase.

23. HALE: The Man without a Country.

24. HARDY: The Three Strangers.

25. HARRIS: The Wonderful Tar Baby.

26. HARTE: Luck of Roaring Camp.

27. Tennessee's Partner.

28. HAWTHORNE: The Ambitious Guest.

29. Ethan Brand.

30. The Gray Champion.

31. The Great Stone Face.

32. "O. HENRY": Friends in San Rosario.

33. Jimmie Hayes and Muriel.

34. IRVING: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

35. The Spectre Bridegroom.

36. JAMES: A Passionate Pilgrim.

37. JANVIER: In the St. Peter's Set.

38. The Passing of Thomas.

39. JEWETT: A Native of Winby.

40. KIPLING: The Brushwood Boy.

41. An Habitation Enforced.

42. The Maltese Cat.

43. My Lord the Elephant.

44. Rikki-tikki-tavi.

45. They.

46. The Tomb of His Ancestors.

47. Wee Willie Winkie.

48. William the Conqueror.

49. LONDON: The White Silence.

50. MORRIS: The Trap.

51. MURFREE: The "Harnt" that Walks Chilhowee.

52. PAGE: Marse Chan.

53. Meh Lady.

54. Polly.

55. PARKER: The Stake and the Plumb Line.

56. POE: The Fall of the House of Usher.

57. The Murders in the Rue Morgue.

58. The Pit and the Pendulum.

59. ROBERTS: From the Teeth of the Tide.

60. SPEARMAN: