Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-01-02
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I Belle Plain. She demanded men,
nd teams, and began on the lawns.
his interested and fascinated her.
he vas out at sun-up to direct her
aborrs. She mad the advantage of
,harle' Norton's presence and advice
or tn, greater part Of each day In
he week, and Sundays he came to
ook Ger what had been accomplish
ID, an. as Tom firmly believed, to
put tht little fool up. to fresh nom
sense. He could have booted him!
AS le grounds took shape before
her deghted eyes, Betty found leisure
to instute a thorough reformation
indoor A number Of house servants
were scued from the quarters and
she ban to instruct them in their
new dies.
Tomas sick at heart. The little
fool wdd cripple the place. 1t gave
him ace nausea to see the gangs at
work out the lawns; it made him
sicker pass through the house. There
were f or six women in the kitchen
now-lwas damned If he could see
what " found to do-there was
butler I'd a page. Betty had levied
on theables for one Of the best teams
to drahe family carriage, which had
not be in use since her mothers
death :tere was a coachman for that
and amer little monkey to ride on
the rule and hop down and open
sates. his came of sending girls
laway school-they only learned
lfoolishi.
And sc niggers about the house
had to'dressed for their new work;
the !buN a cracking plow-hand he
Twas, vbetter clothes than he-Tom
did. wonder he was sick;-and
Ifwaste! m knew all about that when
the bilhgan to come in from Mem
phis. y, that pink-faced chit, he
always erred to her in his own mind
now as s,ink-faced chit, was evolving
a scherbf life that would cost eight
or ten ousand dollars a year to
maintaiand she was talking of
decorat for the house, either from
New Onns or Philadelphia, and new
furnitmfrom top to bottom.
Tom t that he was being robbed.
Then hsealized with sense of shock
that he was a fortune Of over half
a millio in lands and slaves which
he had managed and manipulated all
these yrs, but which was not his.
I+waspss rue that under the terms of
s stepmother's will he would inherit
in the event of Betty's death-well,
e looked like dying, whole lot-she
rs as strong as a mule, those soft
unded curves covered plenty of Wig
Gus muscle; Tom hated the very
yht of her. A pink-faced chit bub-
ing over with life and useless en-
'gy, a perfect curse she was, with
sorts of extravagant tastes and he
as powerless to check her, for, al
ough he was still her guardian, there
ere certain provisions of the will-he
,nsulted the copy he kept locked up
his desk in the office-that permit
d her to do pretty much as she
eased with her income. 1t was
ell of g will She could spend fif-
en- or twenty thousand year If she
anted to and he couldn't prevent It.
was an iniquitous document!
Well, the old place could go straight
\ to the devil, he wouldn't wear out
Is life economizing for her to waste
e didn't get a thank-you-and he
new that nobody took off the land
igger crops than he did, while bale
Or bale his cotton outsold all other
otton raised in the county-that was
he kind of a manager, he was. He
Jagged his head in self-approval. And
yhat did he get out of it? A lump
um ach year with further lump
um d twenty thousand dollars when
Ihe cane Of age-soon now-or mar
ried. Toms eyes bulged from their
tocRs-she'd he doing that next, to
Apite!im!
4 Bey's sphere of influence rapidly
textt.ed itself. She soon began to
havber doubts concerning the treat
y meIsccorded the slaves, and was not
aronS discovering that Hicks, the
weir, ran things with a high hand.
arlSa reached a crisis one day when'
y" allng to ride through the quar-
ere found him disciplining a re-
tty?is black. She turned sick at
t await. Here was a slave actually
lg mehipped by another slave while
pasturtood looking on with his hands
Vouldn'} }ckets, and with a brutal sat-
lid SOU. When he caught sight OF
he sang out:
do: he's had enough, 1
ct what learn him!" He added sui
manageBetty, Sorry you seen this,
'rt ones are you order such punish
,out authority" cried Betty
ou must,
her a black scowl.
Its look need no authority to whip
a season he said insolently, as he
most Of nv
n put a commanded Betty, her eyes
sh-hooks he strove to keep her voice
ot know Hou shall not remain at
another hour"
lie Plain; lid nothing. He knew 1t
his good more than her say so to
the place. Betty turned
he Naiad' and galloped back to the
felt that she was in no
ht, Betty, see Tom just at that
on. But ID dismounting at the door
nable. On rs to her room.
y quilted, the overseer sought out
it can be office. His manner of stat
.yance was singular. He
city that wearing at his employer.
any, had n insulted before all the
1 of what rage fairly chOked him.
al Impulse speak.
house was the opportunity to swear
re was ,nted to know If he hadn't
Those she hugh without the over