Dec 17, 2009
Scripps O’Neil, who claims to have published two stories in The Dial and one in The Saturday Evening Post. He also claims to be a Harvard man. O’Neil is tall and lean. Deserted by his wife and daughter Lucy in Mancelona, Michigan, O’Neil wanders down the railroad tracks to Petoskey and goes to work in the pump factory as a piston-collarer. It is mentioned that his father was a great composer, that his mother is from Florence, Italy, and that he and his mother had to beg from door to door in Chicago when Scripps was a boy, but much of...
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