Heart of the West [Annotated]

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O Henry. Heart of the West [Annotated]

I. HEARTS AND CROSSES

II. THE RANSOM OF MACK

III. TELEMACHUS, FRIEND

IV. THE HANDBOOK OF HYMEN

V. THE PIMIENTA PANCAKES

VI. SEATS OF THE HAUGHTY

VII. HYGEIA AT THE SOLITO

VIII. AN AFTERNOON MIRACLE

IX. THE HIGHER ABDICATION

X. CUPID À LA CARTE

XI. THE CABALLERO'S WAY

XII. THE SPHINX APPLE

XIII. THE MISSING CHORD

XIV. A CALL LOAN

XV. THE PRINCESS AND THE PUMA

XVI. THE INDIAN SUMMER OF DRY VALLEY JOHNSON

XVII. CHRISTMAS BY INJUNCTION

XVIII. A CHAPARRAL PRINCE

XIX. THE REFORMATION OF CALLIOPE

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Me and old Mack Lonsbury, we got out of that Little Hide-and-Seek gold mine affair with about $40,000 apiece. I say "old" Mack; but he wasn't old. Forty-one, I should say; but he always seemed old.

"Andy," he says to me, "I'm tired of hustling. You and me have been working hard together for three years. Say we knock off for a while, and spend some of this idle money we've coaxed our way."

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"It's Eddie Bayles," says she. "He clerks in Crosby's grocery. But he don't make but thirty-five a month. Ella Noakes was wild about him once."

"Old Mack tells me," I says, "that he's going to marry you at six o'clock this evening."

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