A Mortuary Argument

A Mortuary Argument is a chapter in When the Cold Breeze Blows Away. In this chapter, Ralphie Tennelli, in his house, is bored. Three mails (consisting of an ad that shows a commemorative plate for dead soldiers, an propaganda poster of the Grand Alliance that features Tanya Ivanova in style of Uncle Sam and a military funeral consideration to be held in the Walkerville Aquarium).

Feeling bored that when he sleeps within a few days, he would know that a good mail would build up, until he was shocked when he is riding on another mail that his friend, Waltr Barlow, a sniper from the Atlesian Armed Forces, had died, even at young age, which means that the fortune is almost his.

At Barlow's funeral in the Walkerville Cemetery, while he is wearing a Magic School Bus jumpsuit, he meets his former girlfriend, Dorothy Ann Rourke, also in a Magic School Bus jumpsuit, who now became rivals. Two of them only attend the funeral.

According to Father Garlow Beckham's euology, he said that Barlow spent his entire life in Atlas, except for his four-year-service in World War III and one Atlas Academy daytrip to Vale. He worked as a weapons factory worker in Vale until he was replaced by ten-year-old twins from Walkerville named Madison Jarsdel and Mason Jarsdel, then he was killed