The Man on the Box Author:Harold MacGrath The Man on the Box is often considered Harold MacGrath's best work. It is a novel of American romantic humor. It was one of the most frequently reprinted novels of the last century, and was translated into a dozen languages. It has been favorably compared to the light fiction of Eugene Field and even Edgar Allan Poe. — The s... more »tory: Robert Warburton, a recently discharged army officer, decides to have some fun at his sister's expense. He masquerades as a coachman, and takes her and another passenger on a breakneck ride through downtown Washington, almost scaring the life out of them. Problem is, he got the wrong carriage. His passenger is really none other than Betty Annesley, daughter of Colonel Annesley. Warburton has a tremendous crush on her, and thinks it too good an offer to refuse when the girl hires him as her personal lackey. Warburton enters the Annesley household, and engages in a number of adventures, as it turns out. But when Colonel Annesley is blackmailed by the Count Boris Karloff, a Russian spy, things take a rather different twist. Bob finds himself in a position to help the Annesleys, and maybe save the Colonel's honor. But in order to do so, he must reveal who he is. « less