Whirligigs

A millionaire’s night out ends with a chair swung, a revolver fired, and a man fleeing New York with $2,800 in his pocket. But in O. Henry’s opening tale, the sharpest danger may be waiting beneath a moonlit sky in La Paz.

In this collection, O. Henry turns from the all-night cafés of New York to a small Peruvian town where an ocean seems wide enough to bury any past. Ralph Merriam, a fugitive haunted by the man he shot, hopes distance will quiet his remorse; instead, he falls for Mrs. Conant, whose own history is darker than her easy manner suggests. When the two confess what they have done, escape becomes a question of conscience as well as geography. Can either of them find a way forward without being judged by the past?

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