The reason for all the knavery was to avoid the payment of three hundred dollars to a destitute and distracted woman—that, and that alone!

I felt sure now that no doctor could tell whether people were insane or not, so long as the case was not violent.

Could I pass a week in the insane ward at Blackwell’s Island? I said I could and I would. And I did

I went back to the old home, to Denmark and to my mother; because I just couldn't stay away any longer.

The coupon looked for all the world like a dollar bill, except that it was so small that a baby’s hand could easily cover it.

We had been looking the police over by night, Roosevelt and I. We had inspected the lodging-rooms while I went over the long fight with him, and had come at last, at 2 A.M., to the Church Street Station.

In those days, somebody was always fighting somebody else for some fancied injury or act of bad faith in the gathering of the news.

Cat Alley is a back-yard illustration of the theory of evolution. The fittest survive, and the Welsh babies were not among them.

It is not my fault that the one thing that is lost more persistently than any other in a large city is the very thing you would imagine to be safest of all in the keeping of its owner.

The Germans had sentenced Louvain to become a wilderness, and with the German system and love of thoroughness they left Louvain an empty, blackened shell.