It ends with a brief passage in which the "Easterner" explains everyone's complicity.
It ends with a brief passage in which the "Easterner" explains everyone's complicity. The once paranoid central character bests Johnnie but dies later that night, and the Easterner reveals at the end that the central character was right after all. The action takes place in Fort Romper, primarily at the establishment of Pat Scully, whose son cheats at a game of cards. This provokes the Swede, who is knifed in his drunkenness shortly thereafter. FTP, name this short story set at the titular location, a work by Stephen Crane.
It ends with a brief passage in which the "Easterner" explains everyone's complicity.
“The {Blue Hotel}”