Roads of Destiny (1909)

by O. Henry

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ROADS OF DESTINY

 

 

BOOKS BY O. HENRY

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• CABBAGES AND KINGS
• THE FOUR MILLION
• THE TRIMMED LAMP
• HEART OF THE WEST
• THE VOICE OF THE CITY
• THE GENTLE GRAFTER

 

 

Roads of Destiny

BY

O. HENRY

 

 

NEW YORK
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
MCMIX

 

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN

COPYRIGHT, 1903, BY THE S. S. McCLURE COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1903, BY THE COSMOPOLITAN MAGAZINE
COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1904, 1905, 1906, BY THE RIDGWAY COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1902, 1903, BY AINSLEE’S MAGAZINE COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1904, BY THE METROPOLITAN MAGAZINE COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1908, BY THE PHILLIPS PUBLISHING COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
PUBLISHED, APRIL, 1909

 

CONTENTS

chapter		PAGE
I.	Roads of Destiny	3
II.	The Guardian of the Accolade	34
III.	The Discounters of Money	47
IV.	The Enchanted Profile	57
V.	“Next to Reading Matter”	68
VI.	Art and the Bronco	88
VII.	Phoebe	105
VIII.	A Double-Dyed Deceiver	128
IX.	The Passing of Black Eagle	144
X.	A Retrieved Reformation	161
XI.	Cherchez La Femme	173
XII.	Friends in San Rosario	186
XIII.	The Fourth in Salvador	206
XIV.	The Emancipation of Billy	222
XV.	The Enchanted Kiss	237
XVI.	A Departmental Case	256
XVII.	The Renaissance at Charleroi	273
XVIII.	On Behalf of the Management	293
XIX.	Whistling Dick’s Christmas Stocking	311
XX.	The Halberdier of the Little Rhein-Schloss	335
XXI.	Two Renegades	348
XXII.	The Lonesome Road	364

 

ROADS OF DESTINY