Calling himself "Red Chief", the boy proceeds to drive his captors to distraction with his unrelenting chatter, malicious pranks, and demands that they play wearying games with him. It seemed like a good idea at the time! But the moment they arrive at their hideout with the boy, the plan begins to unravel. Two small-time criminals, Bill and Sam, kidnap Johnny, the 10-year-old red-haired son of an important citizen named Ebenezer Dorset, and hold him for ransom. It follows two men who kidnap and attempt to ransom a wealthy Alabamian's son. The Ransom of Red Chief is a 1910 short story first published in The Saturday Evening Post. Henry" seemed to garner the most attention from editors and the public, and was used exclusively by Porter for his writing by about 1902. Porter used a number of pen names in the early part of his writing career. Henry, was born on September 11, 1862, in Greensboro, North Carolina. An American short story writer William Sydney Porter, better known by his pen name O.
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