Sudden: The Marshal of Lawless

Oliver Strange

Being Marshal of Lawless is plain suicide!' That's what they told the young fellow who applied for the job. They figured that anyone who had hacked his horse, his saddle and his guns to get money for liquor, was not the kind of man who could hold down one of the toughest towns in the West. But then the young stranger redeemed his guns and strapped them on. Lawless looked again. 'Gentlemen, hush!' said one inhabitant. 'A man has come to town!'