O. HENRY MEMORIAL
AWARD
PRIZE STORIES
of 1923
O. HENRY MEMORIAL AWARD
PRIZE STORIES
of 1923
CHOSEN BY THE SOCIETY OF
ARTS AND SCIENCES
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
BLANCHE COLTON WILLIAMS
Author of “A Handbook on Story Writing,”
“Our Short Story Writers,” Etc.
Associate Professor of English, Hunter College of the City of New York
Instructor in Story Writing, Columbia University (Extension Teaching and
Summer Session)
GARDEN CITY NEW YORK
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1924
COPYRIGHT, 1923, 1924, BY
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Copyright, 1922, 1923, by The McCall Company and The Pictorial Review Company.
Copyright, 1923, by Harper & Brothers, The Curtis Publishing Company in the United States and Great Britain, McClure Publishing Company, New York; The Century Co., Pearson’s Magazine (The New Pearson’s), The Frank A. Munsey Company, P. F. Collier and Son Company in the United States and Great Britain, International Magazine Company, Consolidated Magazines Corporation (The Red Book Magazine.)
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES
AT
THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N. Y.
CONTENTS
PAGE | |
Prelude. By Edgar Valentine Smith | 1 |
A Friend of Napoleon. By Richard Connell | 19 |
Towers of Fame. By Elizabeth Irons Folsom | 38 |
Phantom Adventure. By Floyd Dell | 46 |
The Distant Street. By Francis Edwards Faragoh | 59 |
The Wager. By Isa Urquhart Glenn | 75 |
Célestine. By James Hopper | 92 |
Witch Mary. By Genevieve Larsson | 104 |
The Bamboo Trap. By Robert S. Lemmon | 120 |
The Hat of Eight Reflections. By James Mahoney | 134 |
Home-Brew. By Grace Sartwell Mason | 159 |
Derrick’s Return. By Gouverneur Morris | 182 |
Shadowed. By Mary Synon | 193 |
The One Hundred Dollar Bill. By Booth Tarkington | 211 |
Nice Neighbours. By Mary S. Watts | 229 |
Not Wanted. By Jesse Lynch Williams | 247 |
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