Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1907-01-16

home. He wasn't :, - K. w. of T..
nor 2. S. G. of " l., bat be was a
roundhouse man, and be wtel Maj and
a railroad man, a wiper even. there was
a bond stronger thln grip or password
or jolly business OF any kind. The 9th
ar things Maze, without realizing ii,
merely played at. bnt as to the railroad
lay, If railroad man was the right
sort he could borrow anything the big
fellow had-money, plug tobacco pipe,
water bottle. strong bot.le-it made no
odds what And on tie other hand,
Maize wouldn't hesitate to borrow any
or all of these things in return. The
railroad mnn who got ahead of Maze
Sampson in this resrcct had claims to
be considered pass grand in the
business.
The doughty engineer lifted and
dragged and hauled Delaroo home with
him. If there WAS no hospital. Martie
had said. no pest house, no nothing,
just bring him home. They had all had
the smallpox up at SIMPSONS except
the baby, and the doctor had said
lately the baby appeared to need some
thing They had really everything up
at SIMPSONS sooner or later-measles,
diphtheria, Group, everything on earth
except money And Martie Sampson,
with the washing and mending and
scrubbing and cooking, nursed the out
cast wiper through his smallpox. The
baby took 1t, of course, and Martie
nursed the baby through and went on
Just the same as before - washing,
mending, cooking, scrubbing. Delaroo
when he got well went to firing; Neigh
Dor offered the job as a kind of con-
ISOLATION prize, and he went to firing
ON the 264 for Maze Sampson.
1t was then that Maize took Delaroo
fairly in hand and showed him the
unspeakable folly of trying to get
through the world without the COM
radeshp and benefits of the b. s. LIS
of U. and the fraters of the order of
the double barreled star of MacDuff.
Delaroo caught good deal of 1t on
the sidings, where they lay most of
their time lodging first class trains,
and evenings when they got in from
their runs Delaroo, having nowhere
else to go, used to wander after sup
per up to SIMPSONS. AT SIMPSONS he
would sit in the shade of the lamp and
smoke while Maize, In his shirt sleeves,
held forth on the benevolent orders
and one boy crawled through the
bowels of the organ and another pulled
off the tablecloth, Delaroo always saw
ing the lamp, and a third harassed t
dog and fourth stuck pins in fifth
and Martie, sitting on the dim side of
the shade, so the operation would not
appear too glaring, mended at Maje's
mammoth trousers.
Delaroo would sit and listen to MAZE
and watch the heave of the organ with
the boy, and the current of the table
cloth with the lamp, and the quarter in
which the dog was chewing the baby,
and watch Martie's perpetual motion
fingers for a whole evening, and go
back to the boarding house without
passing a word with anybody on earth,
he was that silent.
In this way the big, bluffing engineer
gradually worked Delaroo into all the
secret benevolent orders in Medicine
Bend. That meant pretty much every
one on earth. There arose always, how
ever, in connection with the limitations
of Delaroo one hitch. He never SEEM
ed quite to know whom he wanted to
leave his insurance money to. He could
go the most complicated catechism
without hitch every time, for Maize