The story "The insidiousness of Hargraves" belongs to the pen of the American prose writer O. Henry (English O. Henry, 1862-1910). *** Major Talbot - seasoned in battles old southerner. Arriving in Washington, he decides to stay in a furnished house, where once the actor Henry Hargraves lived. The author of the stories with an unexpected ending, O. Henry is known for a number of short stories "The...