Cabbages and Kings

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O Henry. Cabbages and Kings

THE PROEM. BY THE CARPENTER

I "FOX-IN-THE-MORNING"

II. THE LOTUS AND THE BOTTLE

III. SMITH

IV. CAUGHT

V. CUPID'S EXILE NUMBER TWO

VI. THE PHONOGRAPH AND THE GRAFT

VII. MONEY MAZE

VIII. THE ADMIRAL

IX. THE FLAG PARAMOUNT

X. THE SHAMROCK AND THE PALM

XI. THE REMNANTS OF THE CODE

XII. SHOES

XIII. SHIPS

XIV. MASTERS OF ARTS

XV. DICKY

XVI. ROUGE ET NOIR

XVII. TWO RECALLS

XVIII. THE VITAGRAPHOSCOPE

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Coralio reclined, in the mid-day heat, like some vacuous beauty lounging in a guarded harem. The town lay at the sea's edge on a strip of alluvial coast. It was set like a little pearl in an emerald band. Behind it, and seeming almost to topple, imminent, above it, rose the sea-following range of the Cordilleras. In front the sea was spread, a smiling jailer, but even more incorruptible than the frowning mountains. The waves swished along the smooth beach; the parrots screamed in the orange and ceiba-trees; the palms waved their limber fronds foolishly like an awkward chorus at the prima donna's cue to enter.

Suddenly the town was full of excitement. A native boy dashed down a grass-grown street, shrieking: "Busca el Señor Goodwin. Ha venido un telégrafo por el!"

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"She could do worse," reflected Keogh; "but she won't. 'Tis not a tintype gallery, but the gallery of the gods that she's fitted to adorn. She's a very wicked lady, and the president man is in luck. But I hear Clancy swearing in the back room for having to do all the work." And Keogh plunged for the rear of the "gallery," whistling gaily in a spontaneous way that belied his recent sigh over the questionable good luck of the flying president.

Goodwin turned from the main street into a much narrower one that intersected it at a right angle.

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