There was no inclination that the future held anything else for him—until the cake-plate incident. One day in 1910, twenty-six-year-old Harry was visiting his cousins Ethel and Nellie Noland. Across the street lived Bess Wallace with her mother, Mrs. Madge Wallace. (Bess and her mother had moved to this house, at 219 North Delaware—the home of Bess’s maternal grandparents, which the family had purchased back in 1867.) On this day, there was a cake plate at the Nolands’ that needed returning to the Wallaces. Harry saw opportunity. He walked the plate across the street and knocked on the door,
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