Who is 'Lonzo's best friend in this town?
Who does he chum with most of anybody ?" "Why, Darius Ellis, I guess.

You know it." "Um--hum.

And Darius is on the committee--why ?" "Well, I s'pose 'cause Heman Atkins thought he'd be a good feller to have there.

But--" "Yes, and 'Lonzo's pew in church is right under the Atkins memorial window.

The light from it makes a kind of halo round his bald head every Sunday." "Well, what of it?
Heman, nor nobody else, could buy 'Lonzo Snow." "Buy him?
Indeed they couldn't.