ANNIE ANSWERS All at once Annie Squires, usually stolid, now overstrained, gave way to a wild sobbing.

"I can't go in there," said she.

"I'm scared.

I want to go home! I want my mother, that's what I want." "Where is your mother ?" asked Wid Gardner.

He had come over near to her when Doctor Barnes was helping Mary into the house.
"Dead--dead long ago," wept Annie.