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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