Mr. Mahoney

Mary talked the most. She had answers for most everything. When she gave an answer, there was no need to look any farther; no need to wonder any more. Mary knew what she was talking about.

The New Boy asked the most. He was blind, and he had questions about most everything. Mary's answers weren't enough for him. Every answer raised a new question. There seemed to be no end to his questions.

The New Boy's questions drove Mr. Mahoney from one doorway to another to another.

"Look, kid," he said. "I don't have any answers. I don't pretend to have any answers. And I don't want to hear any more questions."

But the New Boy was everywhere and always asking, "Why is everything broken? Doesn't anybody know how to fix windows and doors and people?"

Mr. Mahoney said, "Look, kid, I'd like to help, but I don't know any more. I used to know how, but I can't now. Just look at me."

But the New Boy couldn't see, so the New Boy couldn't see any reason why Mr. Mahoney shouldn't try to do something.

So the New Boy just kept asking until one day Mr. Mahoney got up, got into the old black car without any windows, started it up, and drove away.

Mrs. Mahoney came running downstairs, shouting and crying. "Now you see what you've done?" she said to the blind boy. "Can't you leave well enough alone?"

Mary didn't know what to say. The old black car without any windows had been her favorite hide-away. The car hadn't worked in years. Her mother had told her that it couldn't work. She knew that it couldn't work. But now it worked. Even Mary couldn't help but wonder.

The next day, Mr. Mahoney drove back. Now the old black car had windows. And Mr. Mahoney started fixing windows and doors all over the building. He never sat on the steps again. He was always fixing something in the Project or somewhere else, making things work and working himself.

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