Then her bold heart and her pride all melted and she burst out in a great wail before them all.
"Oh, Jim!" she cried out.

"Oh, Jim, I lost you, and then I thought I'd lost her! Oh, Jim!" Then there was a chorus of feminine sobs, for Eva's wild weeping had precipitated the ready sympathy of half the girls present.

The men started a cheer to cover a certain chivalrous shamefacedness which was upon them at the sight of the girl's grief, and another cheer from the factory echoed it.

Then came another sound, the great steam-whistle of Lloyd's; then the whistles of the other neighboring factories responded, and people began to swarm out of them, and the windows to fill with eager faces.

Jim Tenny grasped Eva's arm with a grasp like a vise.