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84 works found:

Tales

A Centurion of the Thirtieth
A Conference of the Powers
A Deal in Cotton
A Death in the Camp
A Fallen Idol
A Germ-Destroyer
A Sahibs’ War
A Supplementary Chapter
A Village Rifle Club
An English School
At the End of the Passage
Beyond the Pale
Bitters Neat
Consequences
Folly Bridge
Gloriana
Haunted Subalterns
Her Majesty’s Servants
His Brother’s Keeper
His Chance in Life
In the Presence
In the Rukh
Judson and the Empire
Letters on Leave
Little Foxes
Mrs Hauksbee Sits Out
Naboth
New Brooms
Old Men at Pevensey
On Exhibition
On the City Wall
On the Great Wall
One View of the Question
Only a Subaltern
Pig
Quo Fata Vocant
Regulus
Simple Simon
Slaves of the Lamp – part II
Surgical and Medical
The Army of a Dream – part I
The Army of a Dream – part II
The Bonds of Discipline
The Bridge-Builders
The Burning of the “Sarah Sands”
The Captive
The Church that was at Antioch
The Comprehension of Private Copper
The Conversion of Aurelian McGoggin
The Debt
The Drums of the Fore and Aft
The Enlightenments of Pagett, M.P.
The Flag of their Country
The Head of the District
The History of a Fall
The Last Relief
The Likes o’ Us
The Lost Legion
The Man who Was
The Man Who Would Be King
The Manner of Men
The Miracle of Purun Bhagat
The New Dispensation—I
The Outsider
The Pit that they Digged
The Puzzler
The Story of Muhammad Din
The Taking of Lungtungpen
The Tomb of His Ancestors
The Undertakers
The Vortex
The Way that He Took
The Winged Hats
The Wreck of the Visigoth
Tods’ Amendment
Wee Willie Winkie
William the Conqueror – part I
William the Conqueror – part II
Winning the Victoria Cross
With Number Three
With the Main Guard
Without Benefit of Clergy
Wressley of the Foreign Office
Young Men at the Manor