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but suggested these changes in order, in sequence, in wording and in various other things to make it more suitable. Would he permit it? If so they would be glad to pay him, I think, a hundred dollars.

They got a letter back a long, long time afterwards. It all had to go through the warden's office, she later learned. It was so long until they heard from the man and then he said, yes, he would accept the change and yes, he would like to have the hundred dollars. So they bought the story, sent the hundred dollars, got a receipt for it, published the story, and wrote to him that if he had any other stories to send them. From that time on they began getting stories about once in two months and they were all wonderful. They sent somebody down to this blind address. They couldn't find him. There was no such person there. Of course it was long afterwards that he left the prison. Then he came to McClure's and asked for Miss Roseboro. He said he was O. Henry, who'd been writing these stories. His real name was William Sydney Porter.

The discovery was established and he was Miss Roseboro's forever.

Miss Roseboro was the discoverer of hundreds of other story writers, among others Willa Cather. She brought Willa Cather out. She developed her. She saw her talent and she had Mr. McClure buy her things. McClure paid big prices.