The Four Million(四百万)
O. Henry
TOBIN'S PALM
Tobin and me, the two of us, went down to Coney one day, for
there was four dollars between us, and Tobin had need of
distractions. For there was Katie Mahorner, his sweetheart, of
County Sligo, lost since she started for America three months
before with two hundred dollars, her own savings, and one hundred
dollars from the sale of Tobin's inherited estate, a fine cottage
and pig on the Bog Shannaugh. And since the letter that Tobin got
saying that she had started to come to him not a bit of news had he
heard or seen of Katie Mahorner. Tobin advertised in the papers,
but nothing could be found of the colleen.
So, to Coney me and Tobin went, thinking that a turn at the
chutes and the smell of the popcorn might raise the heart in his
bosom. But Tobin was a hardheaded man, and t…