THE HONORABLE PETER STERLING THE GREAT K. & A. TRAIN ROBBERY THE STORY OF AN UNTOLD LOVE THE TRUE GEORGE WASHINGTON _Once upon a time two children read aloud together more or less of Darwin, Spencer, Lyell, Goethe, Carlyle, Taine, and other writers of equal note. Though the books were somewhat above their comprehension, and certainly not so well suited to their years as fairy-tales and romances, both the choice and the rejection were deliberately made and consistently maintained. The discrimination originated neither in excessive fondness of fact, nor in the slightest dislike of fiction; being solely due to a greater preference for the stories they themselves created than for those they fou…
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