Old 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.
He and Fannie still worked hard in their little garden, and once in a while they still showed up in church. But no matter how much money...
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