Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1906-06-22

uuor wiretE auS.td tIrlt MAZE S"inP :,
was bringing back = man with sii'an.
pox on 30, and when MAZE, bulglng ou'
of the 2O4 cab pulled into the u,'iS'on
yard nobody would come WITHIN .
mile of him. lie set out the box car
below the stock pens, cross lots iroD
his house up on the hill, and, not peins
able to get advice from anybody e'Se'
went home to consult Martie.
Though there were great many VIZ
men in Medicine Bend, Maze sampson
looked to but one. Martie. the il.'ie
washed out woman up ~ Sampson
wife, mother, nurse, cook slave-M"i
tie.
No particular color ham no p"ruVu
lar color eyes; no paricuiai co'o.
gown; no particular cut 4 II. a pan
bit OF n woman, motherlof SIN po'''
large and small, and wif OF u sre".
big wind bag englneer-bE as tliree "
her by actual measurement By inc .iips
Maze had taken counseln ana WhiAeu
downtown prominent bsiness men
were Tending on his approach WI"
shotguns. The city marSfii from w
hind n bomb proof asked THAT ne was
going to do with his patiet. ana MaJe
retorted he was going 2 take nm
home. He wasn't NJ. \. W. oi
nor T. s. G.. Of w. f.. ht ne was
roundhouse man. and between MaJe u.u
railroad man. a wiper efn' there "as
bond stronger than grlJor password
or jolly business OF any ina. Inc o'n
or things MAZE. withou rcaliznls :"
merely played at. but ago the raiiroau
lay. IL railroad mauwas the r'sn'
sort he could borrow qything 'ne ois
fellow had-moncy, plp TOBACCO pipe
wnter hottie strong bttle--it made no
odds what. And, oIfhe other h"hu'
Maze wouldn't hesit1 to borrow any
or all OF these thing In return. ine
railroad man who ahead OF Maze
Sampson in this refct had CLAIMS 10
he considered ust grand in the
business.
The doughty enineer lifted ana
dragged and hauedDelaroo home win
him. If there wasl 10 hospital, Martie
had said. no pestlouse, no nothing
just bring him hor. They mad all had
the smallpox up Simpsons except
the baby. and 4, doctor had said
lately the baby spared to neeu some
thing. They had eally everything up
at Sampson's soofr or later-measles
diphtheria. ouneverythlng on earth
except money. Al Martie Sampson,
with the washlt and mending and
scrubbing and ceing, nursed the out
cast wiper throp his smallpox. The
Llby took 1t, 6course, and Marie
nursed the babJhrough and went on
lust the sameJs before washing.
mendIng, cookif scrubbing. Delaroo
when he got wdwent to firing Neigh
Dor offered thc-e-sss- -iisisr " -sparrri-
ISOLATION prize. a. he went to firing
ON the 2G4 for Ma Sampson.
1t .was then thaAiaje took Delaroo
fairly in hand al showed him the
unspeakable folly OF trying to get
through the worl, without the com
radeshlp and benes of the h. s. LIS
OF U. and the frars of the order of
the double barrele star Of MacDuff.
Delaroo caught ood deal Of it on
the sidings, wherethey lay most OF
their time dodgngfrst class trains,
and evenings whenthey got in from
their runs Delaroo having nowhere
else to go, used to amber inter sup
per up TO Sampstn's. At Simpsons he |
would sit in the shad Of the lamp and
smoke while Nab, iIhis shirt sleeves,
held forth on the bncvolent orders
and one boy Tawld through the
bowels Of the organ an another pulled
off the tablecloth, Delaoo always saw
Ing the lamp, and thil harassed the
dog and fourth stuck lns In fifth
and Martie. sitting on tie dim side Of
the shade. so the operatn would not
appear too glaring, mencd at MaJe's
mammoth trousers.
Delaroo would sit and liten to Maze
and watch the heave OF th,organ with
the boy, and the current o the table
cloth with the lamp, and tn, quarter In
which the dog was chewing the baby
and watch Martle's perpetul motion
fingers for n whole evening and go
back to the boarding hous, without
passing q word with anybodyon earth,
he was that silent.
In this way the big. bluffinl engineel
gradually worked Delaroo inc all tn
secret benevolent orders In Medlcin
Bend. That meant pretty much ever,
one on earth. There arose always, how
ever, In connection with the Initiation
OF Delaroo one hitch. He ne'er seen
ed quite to know whom he wanted
leave his insurance money to. He coul
so the most complicated tatechisi
without hitch every time. for Ma.
spent weeks on the sldlngS drilling hir
until 1t came to naming the bnehciar
There he stuck. Nobody could set OF
OF him to whom he wanted his mono
to so.
Had he no relations back In Il