Born of his desire to be "like other people" and make emotional contact with someone, Travis is attracted and drawn first to a tall, blonde woman dressed in white.He retreats with the purloined pistol, but tumbles on the wet street into a deep puddle.The gun slides and careens along the soaked pavement, coming o a halt in front of a pair of shoes of a mustached, Stetson-hatted witness/bystander - Sheriff Boston (Trevor Bardette), a representative of the law.He also tells Sullivan some of the less-than-romantic symptoms of poverty - a futile speech o dissuade his employer from journeying out since poverty is "to be shunned":Butler: The poor know all about poverty and only he morbid rich would find the topic glamorous.She saw two pairs of uncaring, flirtatious camp counselors making out on a porch of a cabin nearby, who ignored the taunting.