Strictly Business

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