放浪者――徒歩の男のロマンスのあらすじ

The story in 10 parts

1. Key idea 1 · free to read

   A cynical wanderer meets a girl on the road

   The book opens on a June morning. A young man who calls himself Walker Farr walks a dusty country road, bareheaded under the elms. He dresses like a vagrant, and a farmer who is also the town constable tries to arrest him.

   Farr answers with a smile that is polite and insolent at once. He has begged no food and broken no law, and he says so. Round the next bend he finds a gray car with a flat tire. The soft young driver orders him to help, and Farr does the whole job, lifting the car on his shoulder. He refuses money.

   One person in the car is Kate Kilgour, who says please and thank you when no one else bothers. Farr picks a rose from a roadside bush, and the flower becomes a token of a hope he will not admit to.

   A man's deeds speak before his words do.

2. 2

   A blacksmith in armor tests the idea of pure goodness

   Farr passes an old house where a very old man is smashing an empty coffin with an ax.

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3. 3

   A borrowed suit of clothes wakes a sleeping soul

   A jolly old judge named Peterson leaves a suit on a fence post with a card reading Help Yourself.

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4. 4

   A dead weaver leaves a child in a locked room

   Farr drifts into the cotton-mill city of Marion.

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5. 5

   Three friends raise a child while sickness spreads

   Rosemarie goes to live with Mother Maillet, a kind neighbor with a cat and a plant in the window.

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6. 6

   Grief carries Farr into City Hall and the colonel's office

   Farr rides to the cemetery with the small coffin on his knees, and Etienne lays her toys on the grave.

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7. 7

   An iceman finds a lawyer and a girl in danger

   Farr turns to Citizen Drew, an old carriage-top maker who knows every politician in the state.

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8. 8

   Service beats talk, and every character shows it

   The story keeps asking what real goodness looks like.

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9. 9

   Debts and bargains bind people against their will

   Money ties nearly every person in this book to someone else.

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10. 10

    A tale told in contrasts, tokens and tall talk

    Holman Day tells the story with plenty of speech, and each voice is easy to tell apart.

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