re was plenty of green in them. Her
hands were rather hardened by work and quite callous on the inside from
wielding broom and garden tools. So Victor was consoled for her loss,
and withdrew his head from the noose. In the evening the long one made
a joke. "Think of it, Spiele, Pratteler did not want to leave us. I
believe he had some scruples about leaving you alone with me."

Spiele turned over a baby garment which she was sewing. "Well, it is
not always a pleasure to be alone with you!" she replied with a laugh.
"But I am going to try it once more."

A week later Victor obeyed the order of the organization which bade
all unmarried workingmen leave, in order to unburden the strikers' fund
and to let the heads of families fight out their cause. Afterward they
might return. He left the house of Hoeflinger, in which he had after all
fulfilled a vital mission, grateful and with the best wishes for the
happiness of those he left. With a conscious will and readiness for
action, and with well-trimmed hair, he went out into a world which his
eyes saw everywhere in the throes of reorganization.

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