This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by O. Henry, which is now, at last, again available to you.

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So, of the seven condemned only three called their farewells to Murray as he marched down the corridor between the two guards-Bonifacio, Marvin, who had killed a guard while trying to escape from the prison, and Bassett, the train-robber, who was driven to it because the express-messenger wouldnt raise his hands when ordered to do so.

...And my desire was granted, for I saw near a corner of Broadway and Twenty-ninth Street, a little flaxen-haired man with a face like a scaly-bark hickory-nut, selling to a fast-gathering crowd a tool that omnigeneously proclaimed itself a can-opener, a screw-driver, a button-hook, a nail-file, a shoe-horn, a watch-guard, a potato-peeler, and an ornament to any gentlemans key-ring.

...He wrote plenty of letters; and every day or two some native gent would stroll round to headquarters and be shut up in the back room for half an hour with OConnor and the interpreter. I noticed that when they went in they were always smoking eight-inch cigars and at peace with the world; but when they came out they would be folding up a ten- or twenty-dollar bill and cursing the government horribly.One evening after we had been in Guaya-in this town of Smellville-by-the-Sea-about a month, and me and OConnor were sitting outside the door helping along old tempus fugit with rum and ice and limes, I says to him: