Chapter I: Front Matter

_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_)

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1924

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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