Sixes and Sevens

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O Henry. Sixes and Sevens

I. THE LAST OF THE TROUBADOURS

II. THE SLEUTHS

III. WITCHES' LOAVES

IV. THE PRIDE OF THE CITIES

V. HOLDING UP A TRAIN

VI. ULYSSES AND THE DOGMAN

VII. THE CHAMPION OF THE WEATHER

VIII. MAKES THE WHOLE WORLD KIN

IX. AT ARMS WITH MORPHEUS

X. A GHOST OF A CHANCE

XI. JIMMY HAYES AND MURIEL

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XII. THE DOOR OF UNREST

XIII. THE DUPLICITY OF HARGRAVES

XIV. LET ME FEEL YOUR PULSE

XV. OCTOBER AND JUNE

XVI. THE CHURCH WITH AN OVERSHOT-WHEEL

XVII. NEW YORK BY CAMP FIRE LIGHT

XVIII. THE ADVENTURES OF SHAMROCK JOLNES

XIX. THE LADY HIGHER UP

XX. THE GREATER CONEY

XXI. LAW AND ORDER

XXII. TRANSFORMATION OF MARTIN BURNEY

XXIII. THE CALIPH AND THE CAD

XXIV. THE DIAMOND OF KALI

XXV. THE DAY WE CELEBRATE

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In The Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out. All the agencies of inquisition – the hounds of the trail, the sleuths of the city's labyrinths, the closet detectives of theory and induction – will be invoked to the search. Most often the man's face will be seen no more. Sometimes he will reappear in Sheboygan or in the wilds of Terre Haute, calling himself one of the synonyms of "Smith," and without memory of events up to a certain time, including his grocer's bill. Sometimes it will be found, after dragging the rivers, and polling the restaurants to see if he may be waiting for a well-done sirloin, that he has moved next door.

This snuffing out of a human being like the erasure of a chalk man from a blackboard is one of the most impressive themes in dramaturgy.

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At the end of half an hour Jolnes had collected a few seemingly unintelligible articles – a cheap black hat pin, a piece torn off a theatre programme, and the end of a small torn card on which was the word "left" and the characters "C 12."

Shamrock Jolnes leaned against the mantel for ten minutes, with his head resting upon his hand, and an absorbed look upon his intellectual face. At the end of that time he exclaimed, with animation:

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