The Duplicity of Hargraves 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 stay at a boarding house in the nation's capital. There they become acquainted with Henry Hopkins Hargraves,
Mark Porter (writer) a colourful 'career' in Fleet St, Porter is a freelance contributor to Newsweek, Standpoint Magazine, Daily Mail, The Guardian, The Herald (Glasgow), Cycle Magazine He is also a food writer (ten years as a contributing editor of "Waitrose Food Illustrated") and has been a restaurant inspector for the Good Food Guide since 2011. He also runs several cycling websites. Porter spends his time between Scotland and France and has set up VeriTable, a new French restaurant site designed to select the good from the bad in a nation whose culinary standing is increasingly questioned. Mark Porter (writer) Mark Porter (born