ABSTRACT

A WAY back in 1904, when I had been working £\... for W. E. W. for a few months, he said to me one day, "Do you ever see the Sunday World?''

''No. I read the Herald.'' "Well, you ought to read the UT orld,'' he went

on. ''Somebody who signs himself 0. Henry has a short story in it every Sunday. His stuff is great. Crackling, terse, dramatic stories. It's surprising to find them in a newspaper. I wish I knew who 0. Henry is. I've asked the fellows on the newspapers, but none of them seems to know."