A girl with a romantic concept of war has her beliefs challenged when her fiance goes off to fight.

A young girl discovers a burglar in the house and persuades the thief to take her own possessions instead of those belonging to her father.

A short life of this little-known Saxon saint who lived and preached in Staffordshire during the Dark Ages.

The judge’s keen ears caught the words, and his sharp eyes wandered again from her to the prisoner, a shade of uneasiness in their glance. He marked the pallor that had overspread his face, making him almost ghastly; the yearning, troubled look in the eyes now fixed so sadly upon the weeping girl; the firmly compressed lips and clenched hands, which told of a mighty effort at self-control and something whispered within him that the jury was at fault — that the evidence, though so clear and conclusive, was at fault and, since there could be no reprieve, to make the sentence as light as possible...FROME THE BOOK.