om the kitchen, a dish-towel and a
half-wiped plate clasped to her breast, and watched the visitor as she
went down the path.

"Her silk waist doesn't begin to touch Millie's for style," she said
pensively, "and her skirt doesn't even drag; but there's something about
her."

"Yes," acquiesced Mrs. Burson, "there is something about her."

Erastus sat on the edge of the old rep lounge, looking absently at the
papers.

"In the event of my death, to be delivered to my friend Erastus Burson,"
was written on the package.

His wife came and stood over him.

"I don't know just what it means, mother," he said, "there's a deed, and
my note marked 'Paid,' and a lot of two-bit and four-bit pieces. I'll
have to get somebody to explain it."

He sat quite still until the woman laid her large hand on his bowed
head. Then he looked up, with moist, winking eyes.

"I don't feel right about it, mother," he said. "I wish now I'd 'a'
dropped in oftener, and been more sociable. It's a strange thing to say,
but I think sometimes he was lonesome; and I'm sure I don't know why,
for a kinder, genialer man I never met."

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