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Show 1 ' - ; O. Henry's Story Prophetic In the door demanding "copy " for It is time to go to press. The writer despairingly de-spairingly dashes off three jokes suggested sug-gested by hi. wife', dellriou. wandering wander-ing thrusts th. "copy" Into the boy, hands, and turn, to find himself alone in the barren room. Hi. wife is dead This tender little sketch, full of the gentle pathos which permeates so m" - ."""' stories, appeared n Kolling Stones." O. Henry', short lived newspaper venture in Austin. Tex. Heverai year, later the author's own young wife died under circumstances circum-stances almost a. sad aa those of the story. The little newspaper .tory, "Three Paragraph.," on. of IhoM collected In th. de luxe edition of "O. Hrnryana." which Poubleday. Tage Co. have Ju.t published. I. peculiarly Interesting to those who are familiar with u. Henry', life, because it Is in a sense prophetic of one of the saddest In-tidenis In-tidenis In In. own career. The sketch pictures the garret home of a young "colyumnist" who. sitting by the bedside of his wife dying of hunger and fevtr. tries to add three paragraphs to his humorous column In the daily paper., The office boy stands |