JANE.
Jane's letters came constantly and they gave to this period of getting
ready for work again a sense of great elation. If a man only passed John
on the hill or in the corridors of the mill during these days, he caught
spirit and energy and hope from his up-head and happy face and firm
step. At the beginning of May the poor women had commenced with woeful
hearts to clean their denuded houses, and make them as homelike as they
could; and before May was half over, peace was won and there were
hundreds of cotton ships upon the Atlantic.
John's finished goods were all now in Manchester warehouses, and
Greenwood was watching the arrival of cotton and its prices in
Liverpool. John had very little money--none in fact that he could use
for cotton, but he confidently expected it, though ignorant of any
certain cause for expectation.
As he was eating dinner with his mother one day, she said, "Whatever
have you sent Greenwood to Liverpool for?"
"To buy any cotton he can."
"But you have no money.
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