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   This outstanding collection features 101 short storiesby great writers from America, the United Kingdom, Russian, andother countries. Ranging from the 19th to the 20th centuries,writers include O. Henry, Jack London, Nathaniel Hawthorne, MarkTwain, Edgar Allen Poe, Anton Chekhov, James Joyce , AmbroseBierce, Franz Kafka, and other major writers of world literature.Such a wonderfully wide-ranging and enjoyable anthology!
   Invest just a few minutes in a great short story and you maybe rewarded with a lesson or memory that lasts a lifetime. And it’snot just the short stories; the authors can also surprise you. Wehope that you will return to this collection again and again; tore-read these classic favorites and train your literature mind.

01 AFTER TWENTY YEARS 001
02 ANGELA 005
03 A BABY TRAMP 010
04 BEFORE THE LAW 015
05 BENEATH AN UMBRELLA 017
06 THE BET 023
07 THE BIRTHMARK 030
08 THE BLACK CAT 047
09 THE BLUE ROOM 057
10 THE BOX TUNNEL 065
11 THE BROKEN HEART 073
12 TO BUILD A FIRE 079
13 A BUSH DANCE 095
14 CANDLES 098
15 THE CAT AND THE FIDDLE 100
16 THE CHINK AND THE CHID 104
17 THE CHRISTMAS TREE AND THE WEDDING 116
18 CLOCKS 124
19 CONFESSION 134
20 COUNTRY LIFE IN CANADA IN THE “THIRTIES” 147
21 COWARD 150
22 A CUP OF TEA 158
23 THE DANGER OF LYING IN BED 166
24 THE DIAMOND NECKLACE 169
25 THE EGG 178
26 THE EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES 189
27 THE EMPTY HOUSE 194
28 THE END OF THE PARTY 211
29 EVOLUTION 220
30 A FIGHT WITH A CANNON 224
31 FROM A BACK WINDOW 234
32 THE FULNESS OF LIFE 237
33 THE GIFT OF THE MAGI 248
34 A GLASS OF BEER 254
35 GOD SEES THE TRUTH, BUT WAITS 261
36 A GREAT MISTAKE 269
37 THE GREEN DOOR 271
38 HER LOVER 278
39 HER TURN 284
40 HIS WEDDED WIFE 290
41 A HUNGER ARTIST 295
42 THE ICE PALACE 305
43 THE INCONSIDERATE WAITER 329
44 THE KISS 348
45 THE LADY, OR THE TIGER? 351
46 THE LAST LEAF 358
47 THE LAST LESSON 364
48 THE LAST PENNY 368
49 THE LAST SIXTY MINUTES 376
50 THE LAW OF LIFE 384
51 THE LEGEND OF THE BLEEDING-HEART 391
52 THE LEOPARD MAN’S STORY 397
53 A LICKPENNY LOVER 401
54 LIFE 407
55 THE LION’S SHARE 411
56 THE LOADED DOG 423
57 A LONELY RIDE 430
58 LONG DISTANCE 436
59 LONG ODDS 441
60 THE LOTTERY TICKET 455
61 LOVE OF LIFE 460
62 LOVE, FAITH AND HOPE 480
63 LUCK 486
64 THE MASS OF SHADOWS 491
65 MEASURE FOR MEASURE 497
66 THE MIRROR 503
67 THE MODEL MILLIONAIRE 507
68 MONDAY OR TUESDAY 513
69 THE MONKEY’S PAW 514
70 THE MORTAL IMMORTAL 525
71 MY OWN TRUE GHOST STORY 539
72 THE NEW SUN 547
73 THE NICE PEOPLE 564
74 THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE ROSE 573
75 AN OLD MATE OF YOUR FATHER’S 579
76 ON LOVE 584
77 THE OPEN WINDOW 586
78 A PAIR OF SILK STOCKINGS 590
79 PANIC FEARS 595
80 THE PHILOSOPHER IN THE APPLE ORCHARD 601
81 PIG 610
82 A QUESTION OF TIME 617
83 ROLLO LEARNING TO PLAY 626
84 A SEA OF TROUBLES 633
85 THE SIGNAL-MAN 645
86 THE SISTERS 658
87 THE SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE WOOD 666
88 SOMETHING WILL TURN UP 671
89 THE STORY OF A DAY 677
90 A STRANGE STORY 685
91 A TELEPHONIC CONVERSATION 687
92 THERE WAS IN FLORENCE A LADY 690
93 THREE QUESTIONS 699
94 THE TOYS OF PEACE 703
95 THE UNFORTUNATE BRIDE 709
96 THE VERDICT 720
97 THE WALKING WOMAN 730
98 WANTEDA COOK 738
99 WHOSE DOG? 755
100 WONDERWINGS 757
101 THE YELLOW WALLPAPER 760

AFTER TWENTY YEARS

By O. Henry

The policeman on the beat moved up the avenue impressively. Theimpressiveness was habitual and not for show, for spectators werefew. The time was barely 10 o’clock at night, but chilly gusts ofwind with a taste of rain in them had well nigh de-peopled thestreets.
Trying doors as he went, twirling his club with many intricate andartful movements, turning now and then to cast his watchful eyeadown the pacific thoroughfare, the officer, with his stalwart formand slight swagger, made a fine picture of a guardian of the peace.The vicinity was one that kept early hours. Now and then you mightsee the lights of a cigar store or of an all-night lunch counter;but the majority of the doors belonged to business places that hadlong since been closed.
When about midway of a certain block the policeman suddenly slowedhis walk. In the doorway of a darkened hardware store a man leaned,with an unlighted cigar in his mouth. As the policeman walked up tohim the man spoke up quickly.
“It’s all right, officer,” he said, reassuringly. “I’m just waitingfor a friend. It’s an appointment made twenty years ago. Sounds alittle funny to you, doesn’t it? Well, I’ll explain if you’d liketo make certain it’s all straight. About that long ago there usedto be a restaurant where this store stands’Big Joe’ Brady’srestaurant.”
“Until five years ago,” said the policeman. “It was torn downthen.”
The man in the doorway struck a match and lit his cigar. The lightshowed a pale, square-jawed face with keen eyes, and a little whitescar near his right eyebrow. His scarfpin was a large diamond,oddly set.
“Twenty years ago to-night,” said the man, “I dined here at ‘BigJoe’ Brady’s with Jimmy Wells, my best chum, and the finest chap inthe world. He and I were raised here in New York, just like twobrothers, together. I was eighteen and Jimmy was twenty. The nextmorning I was to start for the West to make my fortune. Youcouldn’t have dragged Jimmy out of New York; he thought it was theonly place on earth. Well, we agreed that night that we would meethere again exactly twenty years from that date and time, no matterwhat our conditions might be or from what distance we might have tocome. We figured that in twenty years each of us ought to have ourdestiny worked out and our fortunes made, whatever they were goingto be.”
“It sounds pretty interesting,” said the policeman. “Rather a longtime between meets, though, it seems to me. Haven’t you heard fromyour friend since you left?”
“Well, yes, for a time we corresponded,” said the other. “But aftera year or two we lost track of each other. You see, the West is apretty big proposition, and I kept hustling around over it prettylively. But I know Jimmy will meet me here if he’s alive, for healways was the truest, stanchest old chap in the world. He’ll neverforget. I came a thousand miles to stand in this door to-night, andit’s worth it if my old partner turns up.”
The waiting man pulled out a handsome watch, the lids of it setwith small diamonds.
“Three minutes to ten,” he announced. “It was exactly ten o’clockwhen we parted here at the restaurant door.”
“Did pretty well out West, didn’t you?” asked the policeman.
“You bet! I hope Jimmy has done half as well. He was a kind ofplodder, though, good fellow as he was. I’ve had to compete withsome of the sharpest wits going to get my pile. A man gets in agroove in New York. It takes the West to put a razor-edge onhim.”
The policeman twirled his club and took a step or two.
“I’ll be on my way. Hope your friend comes around all right. Goingto call time on him sharp?”
“I should say not!” said the other. “I’ll give him half an hour atleast. If Jimmy is alive on earth he’ll be here by that time. Solong, officer.”
“Good-night, sir,” said the policeman, passing on along his beat,trying doors as he went.
There was now a fine, cold drizzle falling, and the wind had risenfrom its uncertain puffs into a steady blow. The few footpassengers astir in that quarter hurried dismally and silentlyalong with coat collars turned high and pocketed hands. And in thedoor of the hardware store the man who had
come a thousand miles to fill an appointment, uncertain almost toabsurdity, with the friend of his youth, smoked his cigar andwaited.
About twenty minutes he waited, and then a tall man in a longovercoat, with collar turned up to his ears, hurried across fromthe opposite side of the street. He went directly to the waitingman.
“Is that you, Bob?” he asked, doubtfully.
“Is that you, Jimmy Wells?” cried the man in the door.
“Bless my heart!” exclaimed the new arrival, grasping both theother’s hands with his own. “It’s Bob, sure as fate. I was certainI’d find you here if you were still in existence. Well, well,well!twenty years is a long time. The old restaurant’s gone, Bob;I wish it had lasted, so we could have had another dinner there.How has the West treated you, old man?”
“Bully; it has given me everything I asked it for. You’ve changedlots, Jimmy. I never thought you were so tall by two or threeinches.”
“Oh, I grew a bit after I was twenty.”
“Doing well in New York, Jimmy?”
“Moderately. I have a position in one of the city departments. Comeon, Bob; we’ll go around to a place I know of, and have a good longtalk about old times.”
The two men started up the street, arm in arm. The man from theWest, his egotism enlarged by success, was beginning to outline thehistory of his career. The other, submerged in his overcoat,listened with interest.
At the corner stood a drug store, brilliant with electric lights.When they came into this glare each of them turned simultaneouslyto gaze upon the other’s face.
The man from the West stopped suddenly and released his arm.
“You’re not Jimmy Wells,” he snapped. “Twenty years is a long time,but not long enough to change a man’s nose from a Roman to apug.”
“It sometimes changes a good man into a bad one,” said the tallman. “You’ve been under arrest for ten minutes, ‘silky’ Bob.Chicago thinks you may have dropped over our way and wires us shewants to have a chat with you. Going quietly, are you? That’ssensible. Now, before we go on to the station here’s a note I wasasked to hand you. You may read it here at the window. It’s fromPatrolman Wells.”
The man from the West unfolded the little piece of paper handedhim. His hand was steady when he began to read, but it trembled alittle by the time he had finished. The note was rathershort.
Bob: I was at the appointed place on time. When you struck thematch to light your cigar I saw it was the face of the man wantedin Chicago. Somehow I couldn’t do it myself, so I went around andgot a plain clothes man to do the job.
JIMMY.