#463 Hearts & Crosses- O. Henry
Intrigue on a western ranch. Webb Yeager was the foreman of
McAllister’s ranch. He was a stern and respected cow-punch and his men liked
him. McCallister liked how his foreman ran the ranch, but didn’t like that his
daughter and him were getting too close. But love will endure, the two developed a
secret code to talk with each.
I found this story a little out of O.Henry’s wheelhouse. You
expect a little dating in language and tone, but even for O.Henry’s time the
attempts at lingo and dialect fall a little flat. This is not O.Henry’s New
York City. It’s inauthentic and as story telling goes, not of the caliber of
O.Henry’s best.
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