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 Field Porter England). He abandoned the settlement in 1840. Although Porter’s tenure in Port Lincoln only lasted 18 months, he had, nevertheless, been appointed the first Magistrate of the Eyre Peninsula and his family left its name at 'Porter Bay'. In May 1841, Porter arrived in [[Auckland]], New Zealand. He built a house and store on Auckland's waterfront and commenced trading from there with stock brought on the "Porter". He also invested in land in and around Auckland and bought interests in land claims from before 1840. Later he developed a farm at [[Kohimarama]]. In 1841 Governor [[William Hobson|Willam Hobson]] appointed Porter