Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-02-17

clocks looking glass face and said, still

clocks looking glass face and said, still
smiling:
IT would look right fine eff had fine
clothes all the time"
eyes, an I mean ter see that you git
um," Mrs Annis, added with her most
energetic nod.
A very wise man has said there is no
such thing as a trifle. And myriad hu.
man beings will echo the saying when
they cast back to crucial minutes and
note whereupon they hinged. II only
Nam Liza had not been at perpetual
feud with Luce Allen, Miss Winfold and
her mother might have postponed if not
wholly escaped very bad quarter Of an
hour. Luce was the foremost Of the
black passersby who came upon Jack
and Rob- She had seen enough to make
her smile, thrust her tongue in the cheek
and resolve to 60 to Mrs. Winfold's
bright and early next morning. Besides
a born gossip's relish for things Of &C.
count she knew she could give herself
the double satisfaction of revenge upon
Nam Liza and Of getting even with
Mrs. Winfold for more than one grudge
kept this long time in mind.
Yet her face was pattern Of demure
and ebon innocence when she came ask
ing if Miss Alice and Miss Sairey could
not be persuaded to undertake making
her new black calico against an occa-
sion of combined funerals soon to come
off at Boiling Spring church. They
agreed readily, and throughout the time
of cutting and fitting Luce let her tongue
run to such purpose that she left them
both upon the verge of stormy tears.
That was not surprising if you con-
slider that Miss Winfold g world thought
her as tender hearted as she was admi-
rable. Her mother said indeed she didn't
see how dear Alice got along even as
we'll as she did, so sensitive as she was.
Why, the least little trouble coming to
anybody made her cry half day.
Brother even noticed it and was mighty
careful Of what he told her, and when
it came to conscience, "Oh, my, eff Alice
thought anybody, no matter who er
what they might be, had injestice done
'em, most Of all ny anybody that was
anything ter her, why, l do believe
Alice would 20 almost out of her mind" "
Assuredly Miss Alice had a fountain
of ready tears. They flowed freely as
she said, looking after the vanishing
black woman:
"Mommer, what makes you stare at
me that way? God knows I wish Icould
say don't believe anything, but I do
I Just know, in fact, Luce told the
truth"
Mrs. Winfold's heels beat rataplan
on the floor. 1t was full half minute,
indeed, before she gathered voice to say:
"It amt, it can't, it shan't, be sol
The idear, brother goin ter court that
little upstart mink, that limb, that
vixen, Rob McGregor, an Jack Talbot
engaged ter her an huggin her in the
face of daylight an everybody! Eff them
things can be, I CANT no longer believe
in Providence. Poor Mrs. Talbot I
know she'd heap ruther see Jack dead,
as I'd ruther see brother"-
''Do shut up, can't you? I'm sick an
tired Of all you can say about anything"
Alice interrupted irritably. "Let me
get my head clear. I must think hard.
There's a way out Of all this I'll find
it as sure as my names Alice Winfold."
"Dear me alive! Ell it stays Alice
Wipfold much longer, I think I'll run
off with the first tin peddler that comes
along" Nina, the younger Winfold,
said pertly. "You are SO CROSS there
amt no livin with you, an 80 ugly it
amt no wonder Rob McGregor has cut
you out. "
"You better mind how you talk,
missyl" Alice almost shouted. Mrs
Winfold scowled darkly and muttered
something about pert vixens that needed
to be whipped. Nina had sauntered to
the front door and stood leaning out Of
it. Over her shoulder she called mali
oiously:
"You better hush an straighten up
your faces. Yonder comes Mrs. Talbot,
an Jack with her."
81 wonder why she could not have
sense enough to stay away until some
body wanted to see her?' Alice said,
grinding her teeth as she made dash
for the water basin and began dabbling
her eyes. But that did not prevent her
from running to the horse block to meet
and greet the visitor, nor from saying
as she set the easiest chair for her: "You
are too kind for anything. What would
we do without your"
Peace remained with Mrs. Talbot IN
the bosom of the Winfold family. That
was not long, though. By 10 o'clock she
had gone, and Mrs. Winfold was saying
between bursts Of angry tears:
"Oh, yes! She's heard it. That's
what brought her here. I mean that lie
about brother. She wanted me ter name
It, The fool! I'd "a died frstl'
II only hope it isn't lie, " Alice re-
turned, with an ugly sneer. "La, ma,
you re most as big fool as Mrs. Talbot
herself! If she wasn't fool, she'd be
bound to see through US. But that amt
here nor there. The thing to consider
is how we can keep Jack from marryin
Rob inside month. I"
"Alice, you don't think he means
really Mrs. Winfold began.
Her daughter cut her short. "You
ought to know-you must if you had
the least sense-that, whether he cares
for her or not, Jack will marry her out
of hand if he hears that people talk
about her on account Of him. So the
very hest thing that can happen for me