Her mother ran a boarding house in Galveston, a seaside town near Houston, Texas. She was cleaning out the attic (阁楼) one

　　day when she came across an old dusty manuscript (手稿). On its top page were the words，“By O．Henry.” It was a nice story, and she sent it to her daughter at SMU, who showed it to my father. My father had never read the story before, but it sounded like O．Henry, and he knew that O. Henry had once lived in Houston.So it was possible that the famous author had gone to the beach and stayed in the Galveston boarding house, and had written the story there and left the manuscript behind by accident.My father visited an O．Henry expert at Columbia University in New York, who authenticated the story as O．Henry's.

　　My father then set out to sell it.Eventually, he found himself in Des Moines, meeting with Gardner Cowles, a top editor at the Des Moines Register. Cowles loved the story and bought it on the spot. My father took the money to the girl. It was just enough for her to have the operation she so desperately needed.

　　My father never told me what the O．Henry story was about. But I doubt that it could have been better than his own story.

　　文章讲述了作者的父亲帮助他的一位患病学生的经历。这位学生的母亲偶然发现了一本O.Henry的手稿。作者的父亲亲自去Des Moines帮助他的学生卖了这部手稿，并把钱给了他的学生。

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