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Where does the story take place?
An overworked child writes a desperate letter home, trusting that the rescues in her fairy tales can happen in Texas.
Two swindlers seeking a quiet mountain holiday are recruited to impersonate the famous guests their innkeeper promised.
A man awakens on a train with thousands of dollars, no remembered name, and an inviting new life ahead of him.
A rancher's revenge is blocked by a frontier rule: never shoot a man who is with a woman.
A hungry legislator searches Austin for a boarding house that values dinner more than distinguished ancestors.
Two Western swindlers arrive in New York expecting easy money and receive an enticing introduction to a famous financier.
A Vermont art student samples New York's Bohemian nightlife and becomes convinced that her respectable future is lost.
A reporter hears how a harmless poem set a newspaper editor and a visiting woman's family feuding for years.
A trusting New Yorker hands two confidence men his life savings, leaving them to argue over whether keeping it would be ethical.
A resourceful businessman recruits an idealistic painter to profit from a dictator's vanity.
Two swindlers expect an easy victim on an Indiana farm, but their prospective mark has every modern advantage.
Two rogues accompany a respectable merchant who believes he can beat a counterfeit-money swindle at its own game.
Homesick travelers share memories on a fine evening, until one companion grows unusually solemn about life's risks.
A truck driver dresses each night as a fashionable gentleman, until a wealthy stranger’s conduct puts his imitation to a test.
A bereaved miller befriends a young shopworker whose troubled past stands between her and a marriage proposal.
A gifted Southern lawyer is known chiefly as his famous father’s son, even when an important judicial appointment comes his way.
A hotel typist leaves her job to live with a wealthy woman who suddenly decides to spend her millions.
Two swindlers hire a widow to make their marriage agency look honest, but her own romantic hopes complicate the business.
A Colombian general arrives in New York to buy rifles and finds strangers eager to help with his mission.
Two rogues seeking a federal appointment must trust a Washington lobbyist whom one of them dismisses for being a woman.
A weary actress leaves the stage for a village romance, drawn to a minister whose manner seems unlike every man she knows.
A hotel guest finds that every ordinary remark sends his new companions into delighted laughter.
A tailor’s apprentice spends his wages to impress a political boss, setting off a study of who admires whom.
Two strangers seeking unpredictability agree to dine without money and gamble on who must face the consequences.
