... "incorruptible town" but also admittedly that "throughout the formative years temptations were kept out of the way of young people, so that their honesty could have every chance to harden and solidify, and become part of their very bone"; thus creating a stage for a test of its citizens. When the town offends "a passing stranger, possibly without knowing it", the stranger decides to seek ... stranger. The inhabitants of Hadleyburg are not without corruption, simply temptation and the stranger's scheme only function to induce the true nature of the town. Satan's visit demonstrates to the...

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