In the lower west side of New York City, a search for lost love yields unexpected results.

O'Henry, today on the Classic Tales podcast.

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And now, the Furnished Room by O'Henry.

Restless, shifting, fugacious as time itself is a certain vast bulk of the population of the red brick district on the lower west side.

Homeless, they have a hundred homes. They flit from furnished room to furnished room. Transients forever. Transients in abode, transients in heart and mind. They sing,

Home Sweet Home in Ragtime. They carry their lare's at Panates in a bandbox.

Their vine is entwined about a picture hat.

A rubber plant is their fig tree.

Hence the houses of this district, having had a thousand dwellers, should have a thousand tales to tell.

Mostly dull ones, no doubt.

But it would be strange if there could not be found a ghost or two in the wake of all these vagrant guests. One evening, after dark, a young man prowled

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