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139:, especially bachelors like them who have committed suicide. Cavenaugh explains how he first met the man who is stalking him. His car had broken down and the man was supposed to help him tow him home. The man was delirious but seemed to know everything about him, every single detail even from schooldays, any memory likely to put him down. Eastman suggests moving to 943: 127:
dictionary to prepare a case. He goes down to his neighbour's to ask if he can borrow his, and there a man seems to have just left his apartment through the window. Eastman leaves unfazed, too busy with work.
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A couple of days later, Cavenaugh tells Eastman he shall follow his counsel. However, the next day he is found to have killed himself in his apartment.
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Kier Cavenaugh picks up his neighbour Henry Eastman on his way back to their apartment building in
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Uncle Valentine and Other Stories: Willa Cather's Uncollected Short Fiction, 1915-29
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for a while - that way the stalker would get bored and leave him alone.
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Eastman decides to stay in, and Cavenaugh comes along. They talk about
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The Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy and the History of Christian Science
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Index

Short story
Willa Cather
Short story
McClure's
Willa Cather
McClure's
New York City
German language
New Year's Eve
suicide
Montana
Lancelot
Full Text
Willa Cather Archive
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Willa Cather
Alexander's Bridge
O Pioneers!
The Song of the Lark
My Ántonia
One of Ours
A Lost Lady
The Professor's House
My Mortal Enemy
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Shadows on the Rock
Lucy Gayheart
Sapphira and the Slave Girl

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