O. Henry Essay, Research Paper

As Ralph D. Spencer strolled down the sidewalk, he knew of a few

things he had to do. For he liked being Ralph Spencer and did not want to

return to being Jimmy Valentine.

First, he went back to the bank where everyone was still trying to grasp

ahold of what just happend. He took his soon to be wife by the hand and

as they walked to the shoestore, he tried to explain.

He told her everything about his previous life. The way he broke into

safes, the many times he had been in and out of jail, the tools he had to

break into safes, and most of all the way she had changed his life. He also

told her why he even had the tools with him in the first place.

After she had heard all of this, she was still kind of leary about

marring him. She was apprehensive about the future of them as husband

and wife and also about the future of the shoe store.

Jimmy was so sure of himself, that the next night, he had a

document made that stated that in the event of a divorce, or the death of

Jimmy, the shoestore would be completely owned by his wife, Annabelle.

Two months later, Jimmy and Annabelle Spencer were married.

That same day, Jimmy threw all his safe cracking tools over the bridge

into a small stream. For three years everything went well. Thier

shoestore had great buiesness, They had 2 children, and they bought a

beautiful home in the country.

Everything was going well untill one day Annabelle woke up and her

beloved husband was missing. Nowhere to be found. Also, when Jimmy

had thrown the tools into the shallow stream, they had not gone far and

you could still see the top handle of the suitcase. Annabelle went across

the bridge that afternoon only to find her husband Ralph D. Spencer A.K.A.

Jimmy Valentine dead over a rock with his hand floating toward his

suitcase.