A Georgia colonel takes charge of a new Southern magazine and learns what sells. A shop girl in a cheap New York rooming house cooks a beef stew with a stranger’s onion, a wanted man hides out on a Texas ranch, and treasure hunters, poets and hermits each face a choice that goes unexpectedly wrong. The stories date from 1909.
Lesser-known O. Henry, but every bit as nimble with irony and the surprise ending. Download the free EPUB.