The Ballad of Oscar Wilde

By Gadfly on Apr 22, 2018

At the Carleton, Paladin returns from a trip and tells Hey Boy that he's poor. He sees an advertising board for Oscar Wilde's lecture, marked "sold out". Paladin says that he's rather consider the possibility of getting a job than attending the lecture. Sitting down to read the paper, Paladin sees an article about the train bridges being washed out, and Colonel J.L. Carrington, President of the Civic Cultural Society of San Diego, has chartered a special coach to bring Oscar to San Francisco ran…