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A poet brings an elegy to a night editor who prefers facts he can print as news.
An unstoppable salesman keeps finishing a householder's sentence without letting her deliver its warning.
A capable Texas ranch owner and her proud husband quarrel over who has the right to give orders.
On a train crossing the West, a chance reunion forces a young man to choose between truth and the image he once hoped to become.
A stranded cook claims he can rescue other people from their weaknesses, though his own future remains uncertain.
A former Southwestern outlaw explains how train robberies work—and why the life is not worth the price.
A reporter hears how a harmless poem set a newspaper editor and a visiting woman's family feuding for years.
A Texas cattleman offers a sick New York sportsman free shelter, but his guest distrusts kindness and hates ranch life.
A bank customer without local acquaintances offers increasingly personal proof of his identity.
A doctor tells his new wife about a patient’s lost love, unaware of how closely she is listening.
A trusting New Yorker hands two confidence men his life savings, leaving them to argue over whether keeping it would be ethical.
A little girl asks three newspaper editors for a familiar story, but each can speak only in his own professional language.
A traveling medicine seller uses personal magnetism to outwit a town's mayor, its doctor, and the law itself.
A young Texas Ranger arrives with an unusual pet, but his comrades still need to learn how he will face danger.
A nervous patient tries doctors, resorts, and mountain air while remaining stubbornly attached to his alarming diagnoses.
A young architect spends his carefully saved evening posing as a wealthy clubman when he invites a stranger to dinner.
A penniless society widow takes charge of a Texas ranch and finds an old suitor managing it.
A burglar's command to raise both hands meets an unexpected objection from the man in the bed.
A millionaire father bets that money can solve his son's romantic dilemma, while the young lover searches for one uninterrupted moment.
A curious narrator searches Broadway for an elusive social type that everyone can describe but no one quite points out.
A resourceful businessman recruits an idealistic painter to profit from a dictator's vanity.
A yellow dog surveys his unhappy New York home and decides that he and his henpecked master both deserve a better life.
Two swindlers expect an easy victim on an Indiana farm, but their prospective mark has every modern advantage.
A dancer who expects every man to admire her finds an irritating exception in the candy seller beneath her window.
