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The travelling tobacco pedlar, Dominicus Pike, learns from a traveler he meets on the road, of the terrible murder of Mr. Higginbotham of Kimballton the previous evening. Once the traveler has gone, it puzzles Dominicus that the news could have traveled so quickly from Kimballton which is sixty miles away. Nevertheless, Dominicus passes on the sensational news everywhere he goes and enjoys being the center of attention. Things go awry when a witness points out that Mr. Higginbotham was seen alive that very morning. Dominicus leaves town next day in a hurry … but then meets another man who again confirms specific details of the murder of Mr. Higginbotham—saying it had happened the preceding night. Once again, in the next town, Dominicus spreads the sensational gossip—but again, cast-iron witnesses prove that Mr. Higginbotham is still alive. Dominicus is again hounded out of town. Now he determines to go and investigate the state of Mr. Higginbotham’s vitality himself.
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About Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) is considered to be one of the greatest American authors of the nineteenth century. He was born in Salem, Massachusetts, and made his ambition to be a writer while still a teenager. He graduated from Bowdoin College in Maine, where the poet Longfellow was also a student, and spent several years traveling in New England and writing short stories before his best known novel, The Scarlet Letter, was published in 1850. His writing was not at first financially rewarding, and he worked as measurer and surveyor in the Boston and Salem Custom Houses. In 1853 he was sent to Liverpool as American consul and then lived in Italy before returning to the United States in 1860.
About Cathy Dobson
Cathy Dobson is the author of Planet Germany and a narrator of audiobooks.