recollected that she did not have her bank-book, and could
not get her money anyway, so she fought her way out and
started on a run for home. This was fortunate for her,
for a few minutes later the police-reserves arrived.

In half an hour Marija was back, Teta Elzbieta with
her, both of them breathless with running and sick with
fear. The crowd was now formed in a line, extending
for several blocks, with half a hundred policemen keeping
guard, and so there was nothing for them to do but to
take their places at the end of it. At nine o'clock the
bank opened and began to pay the waiting throng; but
then, what good did that do Marija, who saw three thou~
sand people before her -- enough to take out the last penny
of a dozen banks?

To make matters worse a drizzling rain came up, and
soaked them to the skin; yet all the morning they stood
there, creeping slowly toward the goal -- all the after~
noon they stood there, heart-sick, seeing that the hour of
closing was coming, and that they were going to be left
out. Marija made up her mind that, come what might,
she would stay there and keep her place; but as nearly all
did the same, all through the long, cold night, she got
very little closer to the bank for that. Toward evening
Jurgis came; he had heard the story from the children,
and he brought some food and dry wraps, which made it
a little easier.

The next morning, before daybreak, came a bigger
crowd than ever, and more policemen from down-town.
Marija held on like grim death, and toward afternoon she
got into the bank and got her money -- all in big silver
dollars, a handkerchief full. When she had once got
her hands on them her fear vanished, and she wanted to
put them back again; but the man at the window was
savage, and said that the bank would receive no more
deposits from those who had taken part in the run. So
Marija was forced to take her dollars home with her,
watching to right and left, expecting every instant that
someone would try to rob her; and when she got home
she was not much better off. Until she could find another

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