{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6a4432666771af4aa4111213/6abd607138e6d69a30f41f63?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"The Romance of a Busy Broker — A Classic Humorus Story by O. Henry","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/6a4432666771af4aa4111213/1790795843054-ffb4eaae-fcbc-4658-a6fa-534e68276897.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Wall Street, a spring morning at the turn of the century. The ticker is running hot, the telephone won’t quit, and Harvey Maxwell, broker, is handling it all like a man with springs where his heart should be. His clerk thinks the boss is slipping. His stenographer has something on her mind. Then a window opens, and somebody on the Exchange starts clubbing the stuffing out of Union Pacific.</p><p><br></p><p>O. Henry at full gallop, in a nine-minute comedy from The Four Million, read by Don McDonald.</p><p><br></p><p>HumorUs is part of the Short Storyverses network of fiction podcasts. More stories, more feeds, at <a href=\"shortstoryverses.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">shortstoryverses.com</a>.</p>","author_name":"Don McDonald"}