Los nueve resúmenes correspondientes a los cuentos de Somerset

1. The man with the scar
A guy who was with a friend at a bar saw the man with the scar, in whom he had noticed,
approached them and it turned out that this man knew his friend. Then the guy asked how
does he know the man with the scar and his friend told him that this man was a general of a
rebellion that failed and he was to be shot but in an act of "honour", killing his wife for love,
the general in charge of the execution exile and left him free. Finally, his friend tells the scar
that this man has was caused by a bottle of ginger that exploded.
The luncheon
A man after seeing back to a woman he knew remembered when they met. Twenty years ago
she wrote him and met in an expensive restaurant for lunch. At first, she said she just eats one
thing for lunch, but as the food was served proposals emerged to eat more that the woman
accepted, this worried him because he just had eighty francs for the whole month. Finally, he
got pay the bill and the woman ate a lot and said it was fine just eating one thing because then
she can eat more. However, the man had his revenge because she now weighs a ton.
A friend in need
A man, who was studying his fellow-men, found that the longer he know people the more they
puzzle him, this thought came to his mind for the death of Edward Burton. Burton was a very
nice little old man who seemed harmless at first glance, he told him a story about a namesake
of him, who lost his money playing cards and asked for a job at Burton, who proposed to him
that if he swam to the beacon, he would give him a job, but the man didn't get it and drowned.
This left shocked the protagonist because he'd never thought that Burton left that man dies
knowing he won't get it.
Louise
A man tells us his experience with a friend, she bothered him and spoke badly about him
because he knew she was a fake. Louise was a woman with a frail heart and heart specialists
said that she would die soon but that didn't stop her to marry, the first time with a wealthy
man and the second time with a soldier, but both died before her. Everyone was worried
about her health and took care of her, until it was time for her daughter, who wasn't going to
marry to take care her. Finally the day of the wedding of her daughter, Louise died forgiving
her daughter for letting her die.
Home
In an old house, George lived with his family and his mother, Mrs. Meadows, who commanded
that house. One day Mrs. Meadows was visited by her dead husband's brother, uncle George
Meadows, who had been in China and had been left for dead. Uncle George went to the old
house and there told he never married, because he just would do it with Emily, Mrs. Meadows,
and that he had a successful life and he wouldn't regret repeat it. Unfortunately, the next day
Uncle George died, but Mrs. Meadows was happy because he died in that old house where
their ancestors were born and died during three centuries.

2. The end of the flight
A man arrived at a place where the host received him cheerfully. When this man was going to
sleep, the host told him a story about a guest. A Dutchman, who came to that place and looked
worried, told the host why he was there, resulted that the Dutchman did something bad to a
Achinese, and this one threatened to kill him and everywhere he went the Achinese got find
him. Finally the Dutchman came to that place and the host said he would be safe there, but in
the morning the Dutchman was dead, he'd been killed on the bed where the man will sleep
that night, this story disturbed him a bit.
The verger
Albert Edward Foreman was a verger of a church until he was called by the new vicar, who told
him that if he didn't learn to read and write, he would have to leave his job. So, Foreman
walked worried looking for a tobacconist, but he didn't find it and the idea of opening a
tobacconist came into his head. Then, he was successful with the business and managed to
open ten tobacconists and get thirty thousand pounds. And when he was negotiating to make
an investment in a bank, the manager was surprised when he said he could neither read nor
write and even then managed to create all that business.
The bum
A man who was doing transhipment in Vera Cruz, lost his boat and had to stay in that town
waiting for the next boat. In just the first day, he saw all that could be seen from there and
went to lunch at a gallery. There, many people and beggars approached to him and demanded
alms, one of them caught intensely his attention, one redhead, because the man thought he
knew him. Finally, the man remembered who that beggar was and when he went to look for
him, the beggar made the man lose his attention and disappeared forever.
The wash-tub
A man went to Positato for the summer and there he met a man who was there for three
months, like he was hiding. They talked, ate and took baths together, and when the first man
asked his name it was Barnaby, the same surname of a woman who became famous recently
for some stories like she was One-Bullet Mike's wife and washed the clothes of miners in a tub.
The next day, the man went looking for Barnaby and saw that he had a portrait of Mrs.
Barnaby, then Barnaby told he was her husband and that he was hiding to not ruin the stories
that his wife had invented.