# Martin Stoner — Short Fiction character guide

> Martin Stoner in Short Fiction by Saki.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Stoner

**First appearance:** 0032-the-mouse

## Snapshot

A penniless wanderer who knocks at a farmhouse door for shelter and is mistaken for a long-absent heir before he can say a word.

## Who they are

Stoner arrives at the farm soaked and starving, and the old servant greets him as Master Tom, dead four years to the family. He eats, accepts a bed, and wakes to the cold realization that he has been handed another man's inheritance and another man's estrangement. His dilemma matters because the story's tension is whether he can slip away before the fraud thrust upon him is discovered.

## In the story

### [The Hounds of Fate](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_49_se/chapters/the-hounds-of-fate)

The protagonist, a desperate wanderer mistaken for Tom Prike, who accepts the false identity for shelter and food.

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