Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1906-06-22
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window he looked like fourtecn-year-
old boy springing out of a ten-year-old
jacket. Three things only made Maize
tolerable. First, the number Of benevo-
lent orders he belonged to- second, De-
LARGO; third. Martie.
Maize Sampson was joiner and
sitter up. He would join anything on
the West End that had n ritual, grip
and n password. and he would sit up
night after night with anybody that
had broken leg or fever, and, II
nothing better offered, MAZE. rather
than go to bed, would tackle n man
with the stomach ache. This kind of
took the cuss off. but he was that pc
cullar he would sit up all night with Il
sick man and next day make everybody
sick talking the money questlon-at
least everybody but Delaroo. If he
LARGO was bored he never showed 1t.
AS long rs Maze would talk Delaroo
would listen. That single word was In
fact, the key to Delaroo. Delaroo was
n listener; for that reason nobody knew
much about him.
lie wasn't railroad man by birth.
but by adoption. Delaroo came from
the mountains; he was just y plain
mountain man. Some said his father
was n trapper; IL so. 1t explained every
thlng-the quiet. the head bent inqulr-
ingly forward. the modest unobstrusive-
ness of man deaf. OF size and
shape nothing remarkable, Delaroo-but
n great listener. for though he looked
like deaf man he heard like dis
patcher and saw marvelously from out
the ends of his silent eyes. Delaroo
for all the world was trapper.
He came into the service rs round
house sweeper; then Neighbor, after
long time, put him Mt wiping. Delaroo
said nothing, but wiped for years and
years and was in fair way to be-
come liked when instead he became
one morning pltted with umbllical YES
icles. and the doctors. with Delaroo's
brevity, said smallpox. The boarding
house keeper threw him out bodily and
at once. Having no better place to go,
Delaroo wandered into Steve Boyer's
saloon, where he was generally well
come. Steve, however, pointed n hos
pitablc gun Mt him and suggested his
getting away Immediately from the
front end of It, Delaroo went from
there to the roundhouse with his UNI
bilicals and asked Neighbor what n
man with the smallpox ought to do
with 1t. Neighbor wouldn't run, not
even from the smallpox, but he told
Delaroo what 1t meant to get the
smallpox started in the roundhouse,
and Delaroo wandered quietly away
from the depot grounds, n pretty sick
man then, staggered up the yards and
crawled stupid Into n box car to die
without embarrassing anybody.
BY some hook or crook. nobody to
this day knows how, that car was
switched on to MAZE SIMPSONS train
when 1t was made up that day for the
west. Maybe II was done as n trick
to scare the windbag engineer. II So
the idea was successful. When the
hind end brakeman ut the second stop
came forward and reported n tramp
with the smallpox In the empty box
car MAZE was angry, but his curiosity
gradually got the upper hand. This
man might DO by some distant chance,
he reflected, q l.. Q. w. of A.. or n
frater, or fellow, or knight or
something like. and when they stopped
again TO throw Off crackers and beer
and catchup, Maze went back and en-
tered the infected car like lion tanner
to try lodge signals and things on him.
MAZE advanced and gave the counter
sign. 1t was not cordially received.
He tried another and another and an
other; his passes were lost In the air.
The smallpox man appeared totally
unable to come back at MAZE with
anything, He was not only delirious.
but by this time so frlghtfully broken
out that Maze couldn't have touched a
sound spot with n Masonic signal OF
distress. Finally the venturesome en-.
gineer walked closer into the dark
corner where the sick man lay-and.
by heaven, 1t was the Indian wiper,
Delaroo!
When MAZE Sampson got back into
the cab he could not speak-at least not
for publication. He was tearing mad
and sputtered like safety. He gath.
cred up his cushion and n water bottle
and bottle that would explode IL wa.
ter touched 1t and crawled with his
plumber into the box ear, lie straight.
ened Delaroo up and out and gave him
n drink and by way of sanitary pre-.
caution took one personally. for he him.
self had never had the smallpox-but
once. When he had done this little for
Delaroo he finished his run and came
back to the Bend hauling his pest house
box car. The fireman quit the cab i'm.
mediately after Maze exposed himself
The conductor communicated with him