By O. Henry
ReadOasis Step 2
(Part 1)

It was raining as I got off the train in Nashville, Tennessee -- a slow, gray rain. I was tired, so I went straight to my hotel.

When I arrived, a big, heavy man was walking up and down in the hotel lobby. There was something odd about the way he moved. It made me think of a hungry dog looking for a bone. He had a big, fat, red face and a sleepy expression in his eyes. He introduced himself as Wentworth Caswell -- Major Wentworth Caswell -- from "a fine so...