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patiently. "What does the man say?
Where has he been since you left him
here yesterday morning?"
Nathan stood up; pride and pity
were oddly mingled in his grimy face.
By VIRGINIA REED
"Ile has been here, sir; he has
swept and swept and swept all these
were making a big turn and Nathan
"Oh, Nathan, make haste, I have was exhausted, dripping with sweat hours. I did not tell him he could
the fine supper for you tonight, cab- and pale under his grime when at last stop when the shift changell, and he
did not understand. He would ,not
bage soup and salted cucumber and
he left the mill.
stop for fear he should lose the job.
tea with lemon in it," and Nuke fair-
Ile did not look fur Isidore, for Ile wishels so much to bring his wife
ly dragged her husband into the little
he had shown him the way home, and and little daughter to free America.
house, which was the pride of her
here summer days all the men were
The boss' face kindled. "Ry
heart so different was it from their
gloomy little but in faraway Russia. Lou tired for unnecessary effort when George!" he exclaimed; "that's the
sort
of men we want in this mill.
"Is it a feast day?" asked Nathan, the shifts changed. Ile was rather e
not comks Tell him I'll have him put on as sec-
as he went toward the sink to wash! surprised that Isidore had
! when supper was ready, but Nar
ond helper at one of the furnaces.
i off the grime of the mill.
"A feast day, indeed!" cried suggested that perhaps he had met He shall learn the steel trade from
s Marowitz ,
the ground up, and here"- -he thrust
ir old neighbo , M orri
Narka, laughing with pleasure. "Who I the
th e sa nt e village in his hand into his pocket and drew out
I who came from r
do you think has come? "
a bill--"give hint that and nay that
"Coe,
m come where?" and Nathan I Russia.
have go ne to s p end the my little daughter sends it to his little
"Ils.
turned from
nt the sink with dripping ! 1 night
she
said;
"Morris
daughter. .k kid with as plucky a
mayMorris,"
with
hands.
"To America, to Nettleton, to our ! has taken a new house; it has two father as that deserves a present."
Nathan leaned over Isidore, still
e!" and Narka triumphantly 1 rooms and a closet, all there would be
1 h om
I threw open the door of the inner 1 plenty of room for Isidore, and they lying on the floor in his exhaustion.
"It is good news, Isidore," he cried,
be glad to hear about Sophia
would
room and disclosed a swarthy man,1
and the little one, and all the others "the boss will give you a better job,
: shrinking back a little, as though he'
where you can soon make the money
was
in
the
village."
feared his reception. But there
This seemed reasonable and Na- to bring your Sophie and little Anna
,
. nothing to fear. Nathan sprang for- '
than was too sleepy to think much of here."
wardwith a shout.
And so it happened, for Isidore had
but his bed. He felt no sue-
"Isidore, Isidore, you have come at' anything
I last. Many weeks have we waited, , prise that he did not meet Isidore on the stuff in him that makes men suc-
his way to the mill, but when he ate ceed.- Sunday School Times.
and we thought you would never find
[ us." his lunch he asked one or two whether
I
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"It has been hard," saidIsidore, I t h ey
I sinking wearily into a chair. "I did ''I comer. No one had, and even Morris
not know how long miles were, until! said he did not know that Isidore had
walked; been in the mill, and most certainly
' I had no more money, and
had not taken hint to his home the
and walked, so many days in this ' h i,
, night before.
strange land."
hurried away that night.
Nathan
"But now you are here," said Nar- ,
i surely he would find Isidore in the
ka happily, "it will not be long be -
fore you shall work and each moneY• cosy little kitchen, talking with Narka
little Anna. Before he reached
' Much money a man earns in Amer- about
e run-
ica. It is not like Russia. Soon, very the house, however, Narka cam
1
u- him.
I soon, you will have enough to send sing to net
o Where is Isidore?" she called, as d
for Sophia and little Anna. How' I
h could make her husband
long to see tbs. My child. y Id h she
hear; "he has not come yet, and he
ter she is Truly the angels in '1
V
heaven are not prettier than she was I did not go to Morris' last night. Oh,
the day I saw her last in Russia." I Nathan, there must have been an ac-
l'erha ps h e is killed, and
Narka chattered away, hurrying1cident!
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her supper on the table, and urging what will become of the little one?" B
, the men to begin the meal, but she "Nonsense, foolish one, there has
' had an uncomfortable feeling that [ been no accident and I will find Isi-
He is with some of the men,"
Nathan was not pleased about ltd.! dove.
I and Nathan turned back to the mill.
dore's coming.
Narka wrung her hands, it seemed
"Will you go and see our garden,
'Isidore?" asked Narka, as they rose 1 to her that she could see Isidore,
from the table. "Three rooms and I crushed and bleeding, and now', an
. Nathan had gone
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have a bit of help first," then as lsi-; she sighed; "Nathan is so hungry and
dore went out of the door, she caught tired and Isidore would have come e
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she asked anxiously. and no one knew him; they could not P-
"What is it?"
tell us, and now Sophia and little An- 1
for the
i "Are you not glad to see our cousin
America. They le
after these months of waiting?" nu can never come.to
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"It is not that, Narka, but I told will die, too, of hunger and sorrow."
Meanwhile Nathan hurried back to
him that thee was work, work for
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everyone in the mills, and there is the mill and found the timekeeper.
"There is no such man here, ' de-
none now. The big boss brought a '
ame
Washington and Clifford
sa y he tago.
Glared
the
latter;
'
you
til
and
they
' carload of men yesterday
on yesterday morning, I hours
1 have given them all the jobs. Even
L. GILMORE, Manager
B.
How could it happen that he would
.1 the new open hearth is running
be overlooked twice in the shift? Ile
double time. How can I tell poor Isl.
has got tired and jumped his job."
[due? lie thinks he can earn enough
"No, no," insisted Nathan. "Isi-
money in one month to bring Sophia
dore would never leave the job. He
and little Anna over."
must have been hurt. I know him.
Narka dropped her hands at her
He will work till he drops."
sides and her face grew grave.
The timekeeper laughed. He had
"Poor Isidore," she sighed, "my
not much faith in the average work-
heart is heavy at what he must feel
man, but he turned quickly when Mr.
when he is told. Could we not send
Gordon, the "Rig Goss," came up be-
some money to Russia for Sophia and
the little one?" hind him and spoke.
"What's the trouble, Wilson? Any-
"You talk like a want-wit, Narka,"
I said Nathan harshly, but she knew his [ thing wrong?"
"Knof•ky says hi sousin went on
harshness only signified his own dis-.[
appointment. "How can we do more, [ yestterday morning and hasn't been
since money must go every month to ', seen More. He's never showed up
your parents and mine, and more here at all, and since there has been
than ever must go since your sister no accident, I think he has thrown up
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ANA
ow
is sick again? If I earn much in the his job."
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"Na, no," protested Nathan, and
•
mill, we spend much, too."
boss asked:
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"It is true," said Narka, s orrowful- the "Where
did you see him last, Knot-
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ly, "and Isidore roust be told, but
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, I will tell him, sky?"
wait
until
tomorrow
open
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"He was sweeping at the mu
when you are gone to the mill."
e must
Nathan was only too willing to es- hearth, sir, and I told him h
Zr
cape the unpleasant task and he did make good Or he would lose the job.
0•1••••• ••Va~.1•1•WAISIA ' ' his best to entertain Isidore and to He would die rather than give up,
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prevent his asking difficult questions. sir."
"Well, we'll go and look him up,"
Isidore himself was in a daze of ad-
'd the . boss cheerfully, and they
h t
' h
• ,
nuration over the
seemed to him its grand furnishings, went away together.
The men on the night shift looked
a carpet on the floor of one room, a
a
lamp I curiously at Nathn,
as he and Mr.
fine American cooking sto ve, a
st. It was not often
. A picture of the Gordon
;
hurried pa
with a
silk shade where Sophia and that the latter was seen in the mill.
little h ut in us
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Anna were waiting for him came to Some of his subordinates usually
•■
saw ; looked after affairs there, and many
his mind. In his thoughts he
leeping-shelf over the oven,' of the men had never seen the "Big
again its s
except on the street. I
was
'
Boss"
its rude table and kettle. There
1
said
"It is here
that I left Isidore,"
t even a samovar, because there '
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passed across the yard, under a huge
than?" he asked, but at that moment
trough, filled with a white rushing
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Narka called, and Nathan hurried
river full of steel. Then through a
Ile did not return to the
away
tunnel, up an iron stairway, a nd out
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!kitchen and when Isidore was left
alone he fell asleep on the bed Narks on the steel floor of the open hearth.
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him, f or h was quite I Nathan looked about, half dazed
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experi• for a moment, and then sprang for-
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with his s t range
out for
ward with a cry if alarm. A roan
000000
with
a
bom
in
his
hand
had
looked
broom
the morning Na'
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ea
k1
en
he
awoke
in
h
enee's
than was already gone and Narka, as • up, wavered for a moment an
e ta
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gently as possible, explained that he fallen in a faint.
en
There was no confusion. The tone
most wait a little before he could be-
gin the happy task of saving money , were used to accidents. Some
, to bring Sophia'and Anna over. Isl.! brought water, and Isidore opened his
; dor was bitterly disappointed, but eyes in a moment.
"Why, Isidore," said Nathan, bend-
Narka did her best to reassure him. I
' It would not be long. she said, before ing over him, "where have you been
Nathan found something for him to : all this time?"
"Been?" Isidore spoke feebly. "I
do, even the "Big Boss" liked Nathan '
and noticed his work. It would all have been here, Nathan. I did not
come right; they were glad to have let go of the job."
u eat? When did
1 Isidore with them and he needed teat, "But what did yodid you go when
: you rest? Where
after his long journey.
gd
gut Isidore was more miserable . the shiftchane?"
'
"I do not un derstand, Nathan. You
life.
c T mbge eetd, ainnd
ad ever
said sweep until it is time to stop, an
e
than hteheh.hills
I sweep. All day, all night, all day
[ went thronging to their work at the I swee • I must not lose the job."
mill, it seemed to hint that he could his eyes closed again and his face
to
be
one
o
not bear the longing
them. If he could only get a job, looked pinched and drawn with hun-
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should see how faithful he could be.
Every day he watched eagerly for Na-
than, and at last, at last, he was re-
warded. Not even all the grime on
the latter's face could hide the radi-
ance of his smile as he shouted to
Isidore, who was sitting on the steps.
re, Isidore, I got you the
, "Isido
joh larka heard him and ran out to
sympathize and rejoice with them. It
was not a very good job, Nathan ex-
plained, but it might lead to some-
thing better. Isidore was to sweep,
'to keep the floor clean in one of they
great departments at the mill.
eraenld
w l
wiifll ).b•oeuotdho
' ' 'b ehte t e r a d w do er di ,
1 "there will
1
for you anon. A man doesn't stay al
sweeper; he is given something bet- 1
ter, or he loses the job."
"I will not lose the job," said Isi-1
dore, firmly. "I will show them how
I can work. No one can sweep so
clean like I shall sweep."
This feeling was stronger than ever
in his mind when he went with Na-
than to the mill next day. Ile did
not need the repeated injunctions u
to faithfulness when the latter left
him, equipped with his broom and
safely started on his task.
Nathan thought more than once of
Isidore during the day, but there was
little time for anything but his work
. ...i before the roaring furnace. They
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