West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1906-07-12

N'""'' "AN ~ l'N N'hN oNN WIN tuls man
here. wish 20 Col lt was me, aud him
standing ovcr \ mun chats color
blind 0nd don't know think on Gods
earth but r0N,n' un engine is worse
n dead mau"
Nclghhor went home thlnkng
They buried Drmroo But even then
they were not through with him. Dcln.
roo Ind Insurance I'm every order IN
the Bend, which meant almost every
one ON earth. There was NO end 10 his
bcncut certificates uud no known benc-
hcinrics. But when they ovcrhoulcd hls
trunk they found every last certificate
ulcd away up TO the last paid assess
mcnt and the last quarters dues. Then
came shock. People found out there
was beneficiary. While the fratcrs
were busy making their passes Dclaroo
hnd quietly bocn directing the right
honorable recording secretaries TO mako
the benefits run TO Ncighbor, and 40
every dollar of his insurance ran. No.
body was moro thundcrstruck at the
discovery than the master mechanic
himself
Yet pclGroo meant something 10y Il.
After NCighbor had studied over IL
nights tho best of n month; after Mate
Sampson had tried TO take tho color
test aud failed, as lac pCrsistcntly snid
he would; after he had gone TO tinker.
ing In the roundhousc, and from tinker
ing respectfully, ana 10y degrees down
the hlll 10 wiping ut 81 day. with
time aud n half for overtime. Nelghbor
Octhought himself all OF sudden ono
1NN ~ /. L.. a
him and asked him TO keep
llc had put II away I'm the storckoCp.
cr's safe with his own papers aud the
drawings of his extension front end
patcntan safely forgotten all about
II. II was the dny they had 20 go into
the county court about the will that
was not. when no rccollected Dolaroo's
paper and pulled 1t out OF It's envelope.
There we only half sheet OF paper
inside, With this writing from Delvroo
10 Nclghbor;
II. Il A-What iN coming 10 mo on In
6uranco give 10 Marty Sampson. wife OF
Mnjo. Give my truulJ 90 L. Modrnw
Rispk. +. DELAROUX.
When the master mechanic read that
before the probate judge, NGoJc Snmp-
son took a-trcmbllng: Mnrtlo hid her
focc In her shawl, crying nguln. May
be giimmcr OF whnt II meant came
for the frst time I'm her life over her
Maybe She remembered Dclaroo as he
used 10 ST with them under the kero-
scuc lamp while Maze unurlngIy
pounded the money question into him,
smoking as he listened, and Mnrtlo
mcndcd on never ending trousers;
looking from Mnjc Sampson. heated
with monploguc. TO his wife, patiently
sttchiug no comments. just looking
ns Pierre DolnrouN could look.
Strange, Nelghbor thought II, and yet
maybe, not go strange n was all there
I'm the paper the torn. worn little book
OF Dcluroos life. She was the only
woman on earth TINT had ever done
him II kindness
Nobody at Medicine Bend quite uu-
dcrstood Il, but nobody nt Medicine
Bend quite suspected Tint under all tho
bnrronncs3 up at Maize SIMPSONS an
ambition could have survived: yet ono
had Mnrtle hnl m ambition Way
down under her fndol eyes and her
faded drc,s 3l're was an ambition. and
thnt for thr lcHst promising subjects In
80
Under tie uuondug mendng and tho
poverty nnd Ito toll Mart!e, who never
put her nonc ont Of doors. who never
attended church social never ven
turcd even 10 Il free public school show.
had mn ambition for the boys. She
wanted the two biggest 60 go TO the
state university. wanted them to 20
and get mn education And they went.
and Maze Sampson says them boys.
ary ono. has forgotten more about tho
money question than he ever know. II
looks ns n after all the brlckbats might
come out; n bit Of money IN Martio's
hands goes 50 far
There arc n few soldiers buried NJ
the Bend Decoration day there ~ an
attempt nt turn out. u little speech
ing nnd little marching. A thin,
struggle column Of the same warped.
bent old fellows In the same faded old
blue. Up the hill they go and around
10 the cemetery 20 decorate.
When they turn Mt MAZE SIMPSONS
place there's n gate there now -Mnrtie
and moro or less Of the boys and MAZE
kind Of Join In along md go over with
them carrying q basket or 80 OF now-
crS and bucket Of water
The boys soon stray over 20 where
the crowd Is. around tho graves Of tho
heroes. but Mnrtic gets down by
grave somewhat apart and prods the
drifting gravel nil up loose with an
oh cascknfc. You would think she
might boz tucadlnR bread thcro. tho
way she swoys under her sunbonnet
and gloves for her littlo boiled hnnds
nrc IN gloves now
II don't know how much good IL
docs Dcluroo aplklng up his grave
once year" NclghbOr always winds
~ 1T may not do him n blamed bit
u good; don say It does But can
SEQ them. ! sec them from the round.
house. II dOcs me good HIN"
"M1jcW hc VIII add AYLy I've cot
him over there ~ the house. wlplng
I'm going 20 put him running the sta
tionary II old John Boxer ever dies
When VIII ho def Blame N I know.
John s. q pretty good man yet.
can't XIII him. can ~ Wen. then.
what's tho mnttcr with vouf"
'No, Mnio don't talk as much nq no
used 20. forgetting hls ragscs more or
loss too. Getting ola llo sorc more Of
us He's Kind Of quit the money ques-
ton. claims Doc dout understand Il
how 1s well 0s the boys do But no
eau tal about Deloroo. ho under
stands pcloroo pretty wcll-nOwg'
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