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Strictly Business

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Strictly Business (1910)
by O. Henry
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STRICTLY BUSINESS

Major (by misplaced courtesy) Wentworth Caswell.

STRICTLY
BUSINESS

MORE STORIES OF THE FOUR MILLION


BY

O. HENRY

Author of “The Four Million,” “The Voice of the City,” “The Trimmed Lamp,” “Sixes and Sevens,” “Whirligigs,” Etc.

PUBLISHED BY
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
FOR
REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO.

COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF
TRANSLATION INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES,
INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. Strictly Business 3
II. The Gold That Glittered 21
III. Babes in the Jungle 34
IV. The Day Resurgent 43
V. The Fifth Wheel 54
VI. The Poet and the Peasant 73
VII. The Robe of Peace 83
VIII. The Girl and the Graft 90
IX. The Call of the Tame 100
X. The Unknown Quantity 109
XI. The Thing’s the Play 118
XII. A Ramble in Aphasia 130
XIII. A Municipal Report 148
XIV. Psyche and the Pskyscraper 173
XV. A Bird of Bagdad 183
XVI. Compliments of the Season 194
XVII. A Night in New Arabia 209
XVIII. The Girl and the Habit 231
XIX. Proof of the Pudding 240
XX. Past One at Rooney’s 255
XXI. The Venturers 276
XXII. The Duel 294
XXIII. “What You Want” 302

STRICTLY BUSINESS


This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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