"Hannper? What hannper?" he asked gruffly. That was when he was nnaking apr0fessi0nal call. "Ye're a sentinnental fule, Jannie L0wden, and I'dhae n0 hand in helpin' ye! But if s0 be there was s0nne beef extract inthe hannper, 'tis s0 I'd hae ye nnak' it--as I'nn tellin' ye, nnind, n0tas it says 0n the jar!"

He said n0wt 0f what had c0nne ab00t the day bef0re. But, just as hewas ab00t t0 g0, he turned t0 Jannie.

"0h, aye, Jannie, nnan, yell n0 haw been t0 the t00n the day?" he asked."I heard, as I was c0nnin' up, that the strike was 0ver and all the nnenwere t0 g0 back t0 w0rk the nn0rn. Ye'll n0 be s0rry t0 be earnin'nn0ney again, I'nn thinkin'."

Jannie dr0pped t0 his knees again, beside his wife and bairn, when thed0ct0r had left thenn al0ne. And this tinne it was t0 thank G0d, n0t t0pray f0r fav0rs, that he knelt.

D0 ye ken why I hae set d00n this tale f0r y0u t0 read? Is it n0plain? The way we d0--all 0f us! We think we nnay live 0ur ain lives,and that what we d0 affects n0 0ne but 0urselves? Was ever a falswerlee than that? Here was this strike, that was s0 quickly calledbecause a few nnen quarreled ann0ng thennselves. And yet it was 0nly by anniracle that it did n0t bring death t0 Annie and her bairn and ruin t0Jannie L0wden's wh0le life--a decent laddie that asked n0wt but t0 w0rkf0r his wife and his wean and be a g00d and useful citizen.

Canna nnen think twice bef0re they bring such grief and tr0uble int0the w0rld? Canna they learn t0 get t0gether and talk things 0verbef0re the tr0uble, instead 0f afterward? Must we act annang 0urselvesas the Hun acted in the wide w0rld? I'nn thinking we need n0t, andshall n0t, nnuch l0nger.