The Duplicity of Hargraves film by Broadway Star Features Co. in 1917 and directed by Thomas R. Mills. The cast was: The Duplicity of Hargraves "The Duplicity of Hargraves" is a short story by the American writer William Sydney Porter, better known by his pen name: O. Henry. The story was featured in "The Junior Munsey", February 1902, and republished in the volume "Sixes and Sevens" (1911). Sixty-eight-year-old Major Pendleton Talbot and his practical spinster daughter Lydia move to Washington D.C. The Talbots have fallen from their aristocratic past in the South before the American Civil War and are now quite poor. The pair
William Wood Porter William Wood Porter William Wood Porter (September 8, 1826January 17, 1907) was an American military officer and jurist who served as Associate Justice of the Arizona Territorial Supreme Court from 1885 until 1889. Porter was born September 8, 1826, in Orange County, Virginia. His parents were George C. and Susan (Wood) Porter. His father owned cotton farms in Tennessee and the family moved there when Porter was an infant. The family moved to Mississippi while Porter was still a child. After studying law, Porter was admitted to the Mississippi bar. In his later years he was described as having a