And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone to one thousand one classic short stories and tales. This is your

host John Haggadorn. Today a great oh Henry short story called Schools and

Schools. This story is about a love triangle, two girls and one guy.

The two girls are both very, very different and very smart, but only one will win.

Hope you enjoy it.

And now part one of Schools and Schools.

Old Jerome Warren lived in a hundred thousand dollar house at 35 East 50 so forth street. He was a downtown broker so rich that he

could afford to walk for his health a few blocks through the direction of his office

every morning and then call a cab.

He had an adopted son, the son of an old friend named Gilbert.

Cyril Scott could play him nicely, who is becoming a successful painter as fast as he could

squeeze the paint out of his tubes. Another member of the household was Barbara

Ross, a step-niece. Man is born to trouble, so as old Jerome had no family of his own, he took up the burdens of others.

Gilbert and Barbara got along swimmingly. There was a tacit and tactical understanding all round that the two would stand up under a

floral bell some high noon and promised to minister to keep old Jerome's money in a state

of high commotion. But at this point complications must be introduced.

Thirty years before, when old Jerome was young Jerome, there was a brother of his named Dick.

Dick went west to seek his or somebody else's fortune. Nothing was heard of him until one day old

Jerome had a letter from his brother. It was badly written on ruled

paper that smelled of salt bacon and coffee grounds.

The writing was asthmatic and the spelling of St. Fattusi.

It appeared that instead of Dick having forced Fortune to stand and deliver, he had been held up himself,

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