Because he listened in by W. C. Tuttle
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Because he listened in by W. C. Tuttle is a Western short story written in the late 1920s. It follows a down-on-his-luck drifter in the desert Southwest who acts on a supposed stagecoach-robbery plan he overhears. A hard-bitten gambler known as the Laramie Kid flees Los Noches after shooting a crooked dealer, hides in a ranch loft, and overhears Larry Brett discussing a perfect holdup spot and a complicit driver. Wearing a
blue shirt and out of ammunition, Laramie steals a J80 horse and intercepts the Silver City stage at Lost Creek, only to be blasted and captured by veteran driver Eph Jones. Later in Silver City, Sheriff Buck Nolan hears Brett and a visiting writer, Jimmy Colvin, reveal that the “plan” Laramie overheard was merely plotting for Colvin’s Western tale. Realizing he was duped by fiction he mistook for fact, Laramie sits wounded and roped, the butt of an ironic twist he brought on himself. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Tuttle, W. C. (Wilbur C.), 1883-1969 |
|---|---|
| Title | Because he listened in |
| Original Publication | New York, NY: Street & Smith Corporation, 1928. |
| Series Title | Produced from the August 25, 1928 issue of Western Story Magazine. |
| Credits | Prepared by volunteers at BookCove (bookcove.net) |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Short stories |
| Subject | Western stories |
| Subject | Robbery -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 78771 |
| Release Date | May 27, 2026 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 553 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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