The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-12-27
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| Wexe uvang, She SAl0- WlE not con- descend to compromise with these out. laws; am not afraid, and they may burn the mills-yes, and this house also-be- fore will yield an inch. Employ new men at once Their presence in the mill will be my only answer to the strikers q
 Your method is courageous" he said, but impoliiic."
 She interrupted him by a gesture. have decided, :" she told him. "No argument can alter my determination"
 He drew on his gloves preparatory to leaving.
 Since your decision is fin al ~ill carry it out to the best of my ability" he said. "l can engage almost enough new men in day or two, and some of the old hands will return when they ind the strike is likely to be unsuccessful. After this affair is settled am going to tender you my resignation, for think of chang ing my occupation"
 She glanced a, him inquiringly. Are you going out upon strike, like the otheIs?'
 She asked the question little inso- lently; she was aware that he was look ing at he. with his shrewd critical eyes, and she would not for the world have had him suspect that she regretted his going
 "Yes," he said, with quiet earnessness, "l am going like the others Before go l will make demand which will far exceed theirs"
 Her proud face flushed, but she answered coolly:
 "Then will be obliged to treat you as will the others"
 
 There was much suppressed excite ment throughout the town next day. | was learned that Miss Lytton would mak, no terms with the strikers.
 Gerard Lincoln had advertised for new workmen and had received hundreds 0 applicants.
 Many of the old hands were engaged in drunken carousal which had ren dered them insensible to reason. A fev men had expressed their wish to be re instated, and had been assigned to thei old places.
 During the day the superintendent sen a note to Miss Lytton, urging her to leave town till after the excitement had abated
 "The men are crazy with drink" |, wrote, and in their present condition are capable of doing you personal injury l have watchmen guarding the hall, bu nothing can prevent an evil-minded per son from throwing a stone through you window"
 Her answer was as follows:
 "l approve of the precautions you hay, taken, but do not think it necessary |, leave town. am not in the leas alarmed, and will remain at the hall"
 He tossed her letter into the fire.
 "You are too proud to show the whit, feather" he said, as if addressing her After all, there is little chance of tn, strikers going to the hall. It is tn, factory that they are after. If believes you were in actual danger, my dea Lady Disdain, too would use coercion and force you out of town p
 He h Id engaged 300 new men, ant had organized them as 8 guard. Ever man was bound to protect his own loom This he was more willing to do since b, so doing he secured his own bread ant butter.
 At nightfall on Monday Mir. LincolI received information that the mills woul, l The new employees were secretly givel notice to be on the grounds at the tim, appointed, and few policeman of tn, towp were informed of the expected trouble.
 T Early in the evening MT. Lincoln pait visit to the hall, and found the build ing shut up as close as a tomb. Tn, servants, who knew something of tn, nights prospects, took the precaution ts bar every window and door as thougl fortifylng themselves against an army. During the afternoon Miss Lytton hat experienced revulsion of feeling. Sh, was not a nervous woman, and was ac customed to abide by her decisions bu she began to fear that this time she ha. made mistake. Previously she ha, only considered the danger with whicl she was threatened, but she suddenly re [ membered that her superintendent woul, , share the risk. He was the limb be tween herself and her workmen, and the, naturally looked upon him as their em ployer. They knew him, while many o them had never seen her. They re alized that he had the power to employ 0 discharge them He had increased an, decreased their wages at his will. The, would probably wreak their vengeano upon him more viciously than upon ; woman with whom they had never ha, personal dealings.
 When he saw her that night she wa less authoritative at first than usual, al though her manner was cold. He tol, her of his arrangement for protecting tn, mills. She learned that the new mel were armed with rifles, and that tn strikers had been joined by a mob O tramps and outlaws who had never don, an honest days work in their lives, bu who were infatuated with the prospect o a night of plunder and riot.
 During this recital Miss Lytton ha, been nervously clasPing and unclaspin, her hands.
 "I have changed my mind" she sai, at length, her voice triAe quicker tha, usual. wish to retract. When sai, 1 would not compromise, 1 did not fore see how serious this difficulty might be come. l wish now to give up the strug