"The Duplicity of Hargraves" is a short story by the American writer William Sydney Porter, better known by his pen name O.
[1] The story was featured in The Junior Munsey, February 1902, and republished in the volume Sixes and Sevens (1911).
[citation needed] The story features Major Pendelton Talbot, a romanticized figure representing the antebellum South.
[1] Sixty-eight-year-old Major Pendleton Talbot and his practical spinster daughter Lydia move to Washington, D.C.
"The Duplicity of Hargraves" was adapted to film by Broadway Star Features Co. in 1917 and directed by Thomas R. Mills.