Frank L Packard

A Dead One by Frank L. Packard “Entered in 1911 Story Competition. Frank L. Packard, P.O. Box 605, Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada.” From the Fonds of Frank L. Packard at the Library and Archives Canada. No published source found./drf November 2018. Stillwoods.Blogspot.Ca In some ways there wasn’t anything out of the ordinary about H. Stebbins, for there are a good many H. Stebbinses helping to crowd the subways and the “L”s in the rush hours; but then again, in some ways, there was. H. Stebbins was a little old man in black, scrupulously neat, with a grey moustache, a wrinkled face and kindly blue eyes behind steel-rimmed spectacles, whose bald head, with its scanty fringe of encircling white hair, bent assiduously day after day over a ledger in Messrs. Carmichael and Carmichael’s office. New York is very large and its business houses employ many clerks, but for all that if one is a clerk long enough and whether through choice or circumstance, changes his employer often...