This will be your third descent into the world of the Unexpected. The surprises awaiting you here, are penned again by classical and modern authors. Again, you will try to guess the ending and again will fail, and to those of you who do succeed in this, we offer an apology on behalf of the Masters of the Genre.

What happens when:
- two spouses hate each other and go to the
mountain?
- a princess is attacked by a mountain lion?
- a high life girl meets a low-class boy?
- three messengers make haste with contradictory orders for the execution of a death sentence?

What do two archeologists search for in an ancient catacomb?

What does Pontius Pilate remember of his rule of Judea?

The surprising answers to all these questions and many other twists await you in the Third Volume of Short Story Masterpieces with a Twist Ending.
“When you read a short story, you come out a little more aware and a little more in love with the world around
you.” – GEORGE SAUNDERS



Contents

An Alpine Divorce........................................................7
By Robert Barr
The Mouse...................................................................14
By Hector Hugh Munro (Saki)
The Californian’s Tale...............................................19
By Mark Twain
The Princess and the Puma .......................................29
By O. Henry
A Service of Love .......................................................37
By O. Henry
While the Auto Waits.................................................44
By O. Henry
The Romance of a Busy Broker................................51
By O. Henry
The Stranger...............................................................56
By Ambrose Bierce
John Mortonson’s Funeral........................................63
By Ambrose Bierce
The New Catacomb....................................................65
By Arthur Conan Doyle
The Three Horsemen of Apocalypse ........................82
By G. K. Chesterton
The Procurator of Judea .........................................102
By Anatole France

A Wife’s Confession.................................................116
By Guy De Maupassant
The Locket................................................................122
By Kate Chopin
The Blind Man..........................................................129
By Kate Chopin
The Other Man’s Wife.............................................132
By James Oliver Curwood
The Case of Beauvais...............................................139
By James Oliver Curwood
Two for a Cent..........................................................149
By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sense of Humor ........................................................168
By Damon Runyon
The Pensioner ...........................................................179
By William Caine
Her Memory .............................................................185
By Dwight M. Wiley
His Journey’s End....................................................188
By Ruth Sterry
The Getaway.............................................................191
By Orlando Faulkland Lewis
The Aviator...............................................................201
By Hornell Hart
The Intruder.............................................................204
By Reginald Barlow
A Sophistry of Art ...................................................207
By Eugene Smith