The Vault at Pfaff's

An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

Well?

Meredith, Owen. "Well?." New-York Saturday Press, March 24, 1860, 1.
Electronic Source Available
Type
newspaper
Genre
poetry
Abstract

Two men, each thinking they are the most beloved by a woman, go to her soon after she has been confessed and died. It comes as a suprise to each when they check the portrait clasped to her that neither of them is in it, but it is the priest that confessed her.