Can Such Things Be? · Character
Orrin Brower
A fugitive in a dark wood who meets a figure he cannot outrun, and whose story is told by a narrator who has already been accused of poisoning a man's whisky.
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Also known as Brower
First appearance: the moonlit road
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A fugitive murderer who escapes jail and is guided back by the ghostly jailer.
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Orrin Brower's tale reaches the reader through the voice of Henry Saylor, the sardonic little man who narrates the deaths of Whisky and Jo and then turns on his listener with the charge that he poisoned the beast's…
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