Short Fiction

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Short Fiction
By  O. Henry.


Table of Contents

 Titlepage
 Imprint
 Lord Oakhurst’s Curse

 I
 II
 III: The Curse


 Bexar Scrip  No. 2692
 Queries and Answers
 Aristocracy Versus Hash
 Fickle Fortune or How Gladys Hustled
 A Strange Story
 The Great French Detective, in Austin

 I
 II
 III


 Tracked to Doom
 A Snapshot at the President
 Three Paragraphs
 A Lunar Episode
 The Sensitive Colonel Jay
 The Distraction of Grief
 A Sporting Interest
 Had a Use for It
 The Old Landmark
 Getting at the Facts
 Too Wise
 Answers to Inquiries
 Hush Money
 Relieved
 A Villainous Trick
 Book Reviews
 A Conditional Pardon
 Bill Nye
 A Guarded Secret
 A Universal Favorite
 Willing to Compromise
 Ridiculous
 Guessed Everything Else
 A Slight Mistake
 A Good Story Spoiled
 Revenge
 No Help for It
 “Not So Much a Tam Fool”
 A Guess-Proof Mystery Story

 Chapter I
 Chapter II
 Chapter III
 Chapter IV
 Chapter V


 An Inspiration
 Coming to Him
 His Pension
 The Winner
 Hungry Henry’s Ruse
 One Consolation
 An Unsuccessful Experiment
 Even Worse
 The Shock
 The Cynic
 Speaking of Big Winds
 An Original Idea
 Calculations
 A Valedictory
 Solemn Thoughts
 Explaining It
 Her Failing
 A Disagreement
 An Expensive Veracity
 Grounds for Uneasiness
 Recognition
 His Doubt
 A Cheering Thought
 What It Was
 Identified
 Red Conlin’s Eloquence
 Marvelous
 The Stranger’s Appeal
 The Colonel’s Romance
 A Narrow Escape
 A Years Supply
 Slightly Mixed
 Knew What Was Needed
 Some Ancient News Notes
 A Sure Method
 A Tragedy
 A Houston Romance
 Nothing New Under the Sun
 A Matter of Loyalty
 By Easy Stages
 Taking No Chances
 The Other Side of It
 The Bruised Reed
 Journalistically Impossible
 The Power of Reputation
 A Personal Insult
 Reconciliation
 Buying a Piano
 Too Late
 A New Microbe
 A Story for Men
 Just a Little Damp
 Her Mysterious Charm
 Why He Hesitated
 Convinced
 How It Started
 His Dilemma
 Something for Baby
 A Righteous Outburst
 A Green Hand
 A Fatal Error
 The Rake-Off
 The Telegram
 An Opportunity Declined
 The Confession of a Murderer
 A Startling Demonstration
 Leap Year Advice
 After Supper
 His Only Opportunity
 Correcting a Great Injustice
 Getting Acquainted
 City Perils
 Jack the Giant Killer
 No Time to Lose
 Paderewski’s Hair
 Binkley’s Practical School of Journalism
 The Apple
 A Pastel
 A Night Errant
 Board and Ancestors
 An X-Ray Fable
 The Sporting Editor on Culture
 A Question of Direction
 The Prisoner of Zembla
 Lucky Either Way
 The “Bad Man”
 Simmon’s Saturday Night
 The Wounded Veteran
 Her Ruse
 Why Conductors Are Morose
 Led Astray
 The Mirage on the Frio
 The Legend of San Jacinto
 In Mezzotint
 Whiskey Did It
 A Strange Case
 How Willie Saved Father
 Veriton Villa
 A Mystery of Many Centuries
 The Good Boy
 The Dissipated Jeweler
 Sufficient Provocation
 The Pint Flask
 An Unknown Romance
 How She Got in the Swim
 An Odd Character
 The Barber Talks
 The Sunday Excursionist
 Barbershop Adventure
 Somebody Lied
 The Lotus and the Cockleburrs
 The Proem
 “Fox-in-the-Morning”
 The Lotus and the Bottle
 Smith
 Caught
 Cupid’s Exile Number Two
 The Phonograph and the Graft
 Money Maze
 The Admiral
 The Flag Paramount
 The Shamrock and the Palm
 The Remnants of the Code
 Shoes
 Ships
 Masters of Arts
 Dicky
 Rouge Et Noir
 Two Recalls
 The Vitagraphoscope
 Whistling Dick’s Christmas Stocking
 Georgia’s Ruling
 Bulger’s Friend
 A Blackjack Bargainer
 The Duplicity of Hargraves
 The Passing of Black Eagle
 Cherchez La Femme
 Friends in San Rosario
 The Marionettes
 By Courier
 Madame Bo-Peep, of the Ranches
 An Afternoon Miracle
 A Call Loan
 The Struggle of the Outliers
 A Professional Secret
 Cupid à la Carte
 A Departmental Case
 Round the Circle
 The Cactus
 The Renaissance at Charleroi
 Hearts and Hands
 A Ghost of a Chance
 Art and the Bronco
 Hygeia at the Solito
 Sound and Fury
 Roads of Destiny

 The Left Branch
 The Right Branch
 The Main Road


 The Robe of Peace
 A Retrieved Reformation
 One Dollar’s Worth
 While the Auto Waits
 The Guardian of the Accolade
 October and June
 The Marquis and Miss Sally
 Out of Nazareth
 The Atavism of John Tom Little Bear
 The Whirligig of Life
 The Fourth in Salvador
 Jimmy Hayes and Muriel

 I
 II
 III


 Tobin’s Palm
 The Lonesome Road
 Confessions of a Humorist
 At Arms with Morpheus
 The Princess and the Puma
 A Chaparral Christmas Gift
 The Sphinx Apple
 The Pimienta Pancakes
 The Social Triangle
 The Elusive Tenderloin
 A Chaparral Prince
 The Ferry of Unfulfilment
 The Pendulum
 The Hypotheses of Failure
 Transformation of Martin Burney
 A Little Local Colour
 A Newspaper Story
 A Madison Square Arabian Night
 The Champion of the Weather
 On Behalf of the Management
 The Enchanted Kiss
 The Adventures of Shamrock Jolnes
 After Twenty Years
 The Sparrows in Madison Square
 Lost on Dress Parade
 The Reformation of Calliope
 Witches’ Loaves
 New York by Camp Fire Light
 The Romance of a Busy Broker
 A Matter of Mean Elevation
 The Brief Debut of Tildy
 Holding Up a Train
 The Easter of the Soul
 Ulysses and the Dogman
 The Complete Life of John Hopkins
 The Caliph and the Cad
 The Door of Unrest
 The Emancipation of Billy
 A Harlem Tragedy
 Dougherty’s Eye-Opener
 The Rubber Plant’s Story
 The Gold That Glittered
 A Lickpenny Lover
 The Missing Chord
 A Dinner at ⸻
 One Thousand Dollars
 A Comedy in Rubber
 The Defeat of the City
 The Pride of the Cities
 The Greater Coney
 Transients in Arcadia
 The Lady Higher Up
 The Foreign Policy of Company 99
 Two Renegades
 A Tempered Wind
 The Roads We Take
 The Furnished Room
 A Philistine in Bohemia
 The Diamond of Kali
 A Little Talk About Mobs
 Suite Homes and Their Romance
 The Caliph, Cupid and the Clock
 Makes the Whole World Kin
 The Love-Philtre of Ikey Schoenstein
 The Rathskeller and the Rose
 A Sacrifice Hit
 The Sleuths
 From the Cabby’s Seat
 The Theory and the Hound
 The Coming-Out of Maggie
 Squaring the Circle
 Hearts and Crosses
 The Ransom of Mack
 The Cop and the Anthem
 Christmas by Injunction
 The Green Door
 The Church with an Overshot-Wheel
 The Badge of Policeman
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