The Waiting Room

By Gadfly on Sep 27, 2018

Sam Dichter rides into town past a man hanging by the neck from a tree. In town, Dichter goes to the saloon and asks the bartender for a bottle of whiskey. He then goes to the only table, where four townspeople are playing poker. The doctor, Soames, knows Richter as a deadly gunslinger.Returning to the bar, Dichter asks the bartender what the name of the hanging man was, and the bartender says it doesn't matter now. The gunslinger says that he doesn't mind when they squirm as they die, an…