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ould only watch and wait, and that she

could only watch ana wait, and that she
did patiently.
Time passed On and she had left Mr.,
Williams employment and returned to II
again. This was slight item in ITSELF
but it had far-reaehing consequences.
The fact OF leaving the Williams girls
were aware OF, but did not knew sue had
come back.
Lee had surrendered and the Rebellion
was virtually over. The bronzed faces
and blue coats Of many strange faces ap-
peared on The streets on theii return
nome, but that was all. He was not
among them. TIC white face grew
whittier and the sad looks sadder, but she
watched and hoped and waited still.
He came at last. She heard it as she
went to work one morning. Never had
the beam OF her loom moved faster than
that day. 1t may have been industry,
but it looked like madness.
He entered the Weaying-roOm early in
the afternoon w th his father, VINO seemed
to take pride in showing the improve
ments of tue place. They mad walked
up the alley between the two rows Of
looms, and were returning. They
stopped momentarily behind where
Annie sat. In moment OF thoughtless-
ness, Dick put his hands upon the gear
ing OF the machine, which was stopped,
as he listened to his father. Twas only
a moment, and the boy attending 1T
shifted the belt. The cruel cogs seized
the young mans fingers. There was
loud scream heard above all The racket
OF machinery, and Annie Grey, by sheer
main strength, pulled the belt from the
pulley. Instantly all was excitement.
The hands crowded around DICK, who
had tainted, but tine foreman drove them
hon oil
raising up the crushed member, which
was breeding fearfully, she wrapped her
handkerchief carefully about 1t. They
then carried him to the office, and thence
home.
1t was fully a week before he got
around again, having lost entirely one OF
his fingers and part OF the thumb or the
lett hand. The day of his coming out he
again passed through the mill, his arm
in a sling, but did not speak 10 ANNE.
That night, how ever, as she was going
home, she met him.
He then told her much that was new
and strange. While in the war he had
often written but got no answer to his
letters. After the reconciiement with
his people he had asked if she was still
with them. 1t was the time she had left
and they told the truth in saying she
was not. He had written to the fore
man OF the lOom-roOm and received the
same answer, and in all his after corre-
spondence nobody ever made mention of
her return.
Never hearing from her and thinking
she had gone from the city, he had COM
cluded to make no further inquiries.
Her name on the handkerchief with
which she had bound up his mangled
fingers had given him the first intimatlon
OF her still being near him. Had he found
her otherwise some one must have told
him, tor her face, and he said it with
sigh, hardly bore the old time looks OF
Annie Grey.
The result, perhaps, may have been
anticipated. Annie soon regained her
old beauty and spirits under the new dis
pensation. She left the loom ana mar
riage followed. Thee aristocratic ladies
Of the Williamses disdained her when
she was "oniy d factory girl" but they
could not refuse 10 countenance their
brothers. wife.