Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-03-18
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'IiU SGlInfOnla OF DELI ;.:iI So !"
lie changing spectacle Of mctruli0i':
ife, Of the wonderful y0un. man all'
lG rntmely ailliction Of Phyllis. nn
happily past. Then, in Il whisper
willie Sophronia held up her ri=!
annd rs pledge of secrecy. she to-
nf Tic necklace of which the luck!
.:irl had no knowledge. Now, Mr.;
Anirs was one Of the best Of w0lnra
,''eoplc were wont TO speak of her. III,
rightly. as 'thc salt Of the earth" She
would do anything possible for =
'riend But Mamie Blng had asked tm
much. Moreover, always it had hceH
understood between them that theSl
alf-playful oaths were not to he take:
90 seriously. Of course, "thc lisl, had
10 he fed" as Judge CrOoker had once
nut it. BY "the fish," lie meant that
cTrious unler-llfe Of the yillase-thr
voraciOus, silent, mcrclless COLD
hlootlet thing which fed on the sins
and fOlIies Of men and women and
which rarely came to tie surface to
bother anyone.
''rhc fish are very WISE" Judge
Crookcr used TO say. "They know the
ruth about every one and it's. well
that they do. After all. they perform
an important office. There's many a
man and woman who think they've
been foollng the fish, but they've only
fooled themselves"
And within day or two, the Sc
crets of the Bing family were swim
ming up and down the stream of the
unier-lIfe Of Bingville.
Mr. Bing had found e. situation In
the plant which was new to him. The
men were dIscontented. Their wages
were "sky high, to quote q phrase of
one of the forernen. Still, they were
not satisfied Reports Of the fabu-
lous earnings Of the mill had spread
among them. They had begun to
think that they were not getting a
fair division of the proceeds Of their
labor. At q meeting Of the help rad
ical speaker had declared that one OF
the Bing women wore q moose Of pearls
on her neck worth half million dol
lars. The men wanted more pay and
less work. A committee Of their lead
ers had called at Mr.. Bing's office with
a demand soon after his arrival. Mr.
Blng had said no" with bang Of his
fist on the table. A workers. meeting
was to be held week later to act upon
the report of the committee.
Meanwhile, another cause Of worry
had. come or rather returned to him.
Again, Phyllis had begun to show
symptoms of the old trouble. Mrs.
Bing, arriving at dusk from O market
trip to Hnzelmead with Sophrohia
Ames, had found Phyllis lying asleep
among the cushions on the great
couch in the latter's bedroom. She en-
tered the room softly and leaned over
the girl and looked into her face, now
turned toward The open window and
lighted by the fading glow in the west
ern sky and relaxed by sleep. 1t was
a sad face! There were lines and
shadows in 1t which the anxious moth
or had not seen before and-had she
been crying? Very softly, the woman
sat down at the girls side. Darkness
fell, black, menacing shadows filed
the corners of the room. The spirit Of
the girl betrayed its trouble In sor-
rowful groan rs she slept. Roger De-
lane was coming next day. There was
every reason why Phyllis should be
happy. Silently, Mrs. Bing left the
room. She met Martha in the hall.
81 shall want no dinner and Mr.. Bing
is dining In IIaZclmead," she whis-
,G'cd. Miss Phyllis is asleep. Don't
'isturb her"
T'l,rn shr sat tlnwn In the darkness
+ hnr o.. i,"'lrnn"l alone.