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sS less pontoon drifted out toward the open sea. Then came "Waving Annie" with her little open launch to throw a line to the drifting raft and tow it with its human freight to a place of safety in the salt marshes. So now the story of "Waving 'Annie" becfome something more than merely a sad romance. It 'becomes a romance not only-tragic but heroic. Before, it was mere ly pathetic No the pathos has assumed a certain quality of dig nity, almost of m grandeur, that always goes with any deed of sig nal heroism such as that- to which' the men of Dredge No. 15, owe their livesv t " CHAPTER FOUR , There really isno Chapter Four. Unless it can be considered a chapter to say that Annie still keeps her vigil that she goes out ori the balcony still, day and night with her kerchief or her lantern, to wave to the shjps as they gp by. But thatvs hardly what you'd call a chapter. Strictly speaking, 'Annie's story does not end. It just drags on day in and day out of watching for a stop- that never comes day upon day and night upon night, till the. days string into months and " the months into years,- and so till bright eyes lose their luster "But men must work and woman must weep, Though storm be sudden and waters deep, And the harbor bar be moan- KIDNAPED WOMAN FJNDS CLUE TO" LOST MOTHER MrsHenry Hinibert. New Orleans; Nov. 0. Mrs. Henry Himbert, wife of Bourbon street butcher, has found clues she believes will lead .to the dis covery of her parentage. She was kidnaped whena,Jbaby and 19. when she learned the woman she was living with; was. not, her mother. For 10 years she has sought her parents.' A quarrel caused her foster mother to tell her she was a foundling. A few days ago, a stranger from Europe! told her that her mother was Mrs. Minme Coombs of San Francisco. The San Francisco police are, looking for Mrs. Coombs. , ( o--o We are living in mighty inter esting times, .rmi ?nj 'i ja luuorts tod mmmmtmmtmmmd