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Each day when school let out, the boys & girls would stop by his stand. Sometimes he gave them bananas and sometimes a nickel for bubble gum. Then he would ask them all about school and what they wanted to do when they grew up. Charley told his friends that he was going to leave a fortune to the kids. "They'll remember old Charley," he used...
...Charley Henry, the peddler, was a familiar figure in Winchester, Va. (pop.: 14,000), for he had lived there all his life. A few oldtimers remembered him as a young man, standing tall and straight by his vegetable cart or striding briskly down to the Lutheran Church with his wife Fannie on his arm. But as the years passed, Charley had changed; he was no longer the laughing, lively fellow he had once been...
...showed up in church. But no matter how much money they made, they seemed to spend less & less. They never painted their house, never allowed any-repairs. Fannie kept their money tied up in little packages which she hid around the house. When she died in 1930, it took Charley quite a while to find...
Left alone, Charley withdrew more & more. He grew old and stooped, needed a thick cane to get him around. He refused to buy new clothes, kept only two old kerosene stoves for heat in wintertime. There seemed to be only one great pleasure still left in his life: Charley liked to be with the kids of the John Kerr Primary School near his home...
Said Lepe, with thumbs hooked importantly in his vest: "Mr. Truman had better start paying rent or he will have to look for other lodgings." But Lepe's chances of turning out the President were not as good as his chances of finding the missing Ambrose Bierce, or Charley Ross or Judge Crater...