The day on which the widow Harri and her two children walked into the small, unsuspecting town of New Kotka, Minnesota, was the day on which the town began to lose its peace and quiet. What the natives saw, sympathetically enough, was an attractive little widow with two children to support. What they found out later was that Harri was a kind of female Napoleon, out to conquer the world for herself. "Harri" was originally published serially in Good Housekeeping magazine in 1943.