Tom Marcus

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Tom Marcus donned a black Stetson hat, black trench coat, black vest, black jeans, and a holster on his left side accompanied with a pearl handled colt revolver. From the moment he rode into the town locals could see the dozen interesting stories in his eyes, another half-dozen fascinating adventures in the way he talked, and about a few other tales in the way he walked. From the way he looked many would have thought he would be heading to the local saloon, but this man tied up his horse in front of the house of the local man of science; that local man of science happened to go by the name of Professor Clinefield, and he had recently assumed a teaching role, due to his specialty in Horticulture, at Las Cruces College.

As Tom tied up his midnight black horse next to the trough out front, and walked toward the Professor’s front door, a man with a Sheriff’s badge called out to Tom saying, “Stranger! What’s a man, like you, looking to talk to the professor for?” Marcus responded with a nervy smile, “I don’t know why that’s any of your business Sheriff.”

The sheriff looked, with a stern...

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