title: Simpler Times - Tales of a Southern Boy
author: M.D. Charles D. "Pedro" Williams
description: The times of a Southern country doctor in the rural south.
zlib_text: > > Go Home, Stranger
  
  > > by
  
  > > Charles Williams
  
  > > 1954
  
  > > Contents
  
    
  
   _Title Page_  
  _One_  
  _Two_  
  _Three_  
  _Four_  
  _Five_  
  _Six_  
  _Seven_  
  _Eight_  
  _Nine_  
  _Ten_  
  _Eleven_  
  _Twelve_  
  _Thirteen_  
  _Fourteen_  
  _Fifteen_  
  _Sixteen_  
  _Seventeen_  
  _Eighteen_  
  _Nineteen_  
  
  > > _One_
  
  It took the message over a week to catch up with him because after he had
  finished the job in the sierra he went over into the jungles of the lower
  Ucayali to hunt jaguars. When he had read it he came up out of South America
  traveling very fast, a big, hard-shouldered young man in an ill-fitting suit,
  his face cooked dark by the sun and his hair badly in need of cutting. He
  would have had time to get a shave between planes in Miami, but he spent the
  time instead in a stifling telephone booth making one long-distance call after
  another, relentlessly shoving quarters into a slot and rasping questions over
  thousands of miles of wire while the cold ball of fear grew heavier inside
  him.